11 (A)[a]Indeed I baptize you with water to [b]amendment of life, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:11 We may neither dwell upon the signs which God hath ordained as means to lead us unto our salvation, neither upon them: but we must climb up to the matter itself, that is to say, to Christ, who inwardly worketh that effectually, which is outwardly signified unto us.
  2. Matthew 3:11 The outward sign putteth us in mind of this, that we must change our lives and become better, assuring us as by a seal, that we are engrafted into Christ; whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth up, Rom. 6:4.

(A)[a]And preached, saying, A stronger than I cometh after me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to [b]stoop down, and unloose.

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  1. Mark 1:7 John and all ministers cast their eyes upon Christ the Lord.
  2. Mark 1:7 The Evangelist his meaning was to express the condition of the basest servant.

16 John answered, and said to them all, (A)Indeed I baptize you with water, but one stronger than I, cometh, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose: he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

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(A)For John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized [a]with the holy Ghost within these few days.

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  1. Acts 1:5 Either of the Father, or of me: so that either the Father or Christ is set here against John, as the holy Ghost is against the water, as things answerable the one to the other.

16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, (A)John baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost.

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Then said Paul, (A)John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe in him, which should come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.

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