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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. |
Bible Question:
I was baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I was told in order to be saved that one must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, is there a difference? Tina Willis |
Bible Answer: Greetings, Tina. Acts 2:38 is the apostolic application of Matthew 28:19. The name (singular) of the Father is Jesus; the name of the Son is Jesus; and the name of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) is Jesus. In Matthew 16:18, Jesus Christ gave Peter the keys of the Kingdom because of his emphatic declaration that Jesus was the Messiah (Christ), the very personification and embodiment (Son) of God. In Acts 2:38, Peter (the man with the keys) preached that we should be "baptized in the name of Jesus Christ." This is the way that the apostles baptized; there is not one recorded instance in the New Testament where the apostles ever baptized using the formula "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Consider the following scriptures: "For He had not yet fallen upon any of them, but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus." [Acts 8:16 Amplified] "And he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Then they begged him to stay on there for some days." [Acts 10:48 Amplified] "On hearing this they were baptized [again, this time] in the name of the Lord Jesus." [Acts 19:5 Amplified] "Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life." [Romans 6:3-4 Amplified] "Is Christ (the Messiah) divided into parts? Was Paul crucified on behalf of you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?" [1 Corinthians 1:13 Amplified] "Is it not they who slander and blaspheme that precious name by which you are distinguished and called [the name of Christ invoked in baptism]?" [James 2:7 Amplified] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |