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NASB | John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:5 Jesus answered, "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. [Ezek 36:25-27] |
Subject: Verses where water alone means baptism? |
Bible Note: Hi, brother Ed. As often as I hear the question "is baptism necessary for salvation" I wonder why people aren't asking "is salvation necessary for baptism?" :-) These passages you cite connect water and baptism very clearly. We can be confident that baptism involved the use of water. However, they don't quite fit the bill for what I am seeking. We have frequent mention of baptism without mention of water. We have frequent mention of water without baptism. But we only seem to have this single verse that uses water as a synonymn (or metaphor) for bapitsm. At least, I haven't found another one yet. Thank you for your observations. Tomorrow I'll look at every occurance of hudotos in the New Testament and see if I can dig a similar turn of phrase. (Interesting that at first blush I can't even find a later quote of Christ from John 3.) |