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NASB | Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Subject: Jesus' name baptism? |
Bible Note: Matt, We are baptized into Jesus not into his name. We are baptized "in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit". When we do something in someone's name we do it with their authority, like a Police Officer saying "stop in the name of the Law." He is claiming to exercise the authority of the Law which has been delegated to him by a higher authority. So the Church and the minister who is batizing "in the name of the Father,Son and Holy Spirit" is doing so with the authority of the Holy Trinity that Jesus delegated to his deisciples when He gave them the great commisision to go forth and baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Emmaus |