Instructions with Regard to Baptism
following the Death of Christ
After Peter's first gospel sermon on the day of Pentecost (to the
Jews in Jerusalem and visitors from all parts of the world, including Rome):
Acts 2:37-41 -- "Now when they heard this they were pierced to the heart,
and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?"
And Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit. "For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are
far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself." And with many
other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, "Be saved from
this perverse generation!" So then, those who had received his word were
baptized; and there were added that day about three thousand souls." (NAS)
Philip preaching in Samaria:
Acts 8:5-13 -- "And Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began
proclaiming Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord were giving attention
to what was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing...But
when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of
Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike. And even Simon himself
believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip; and as he observed signs
and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed." (NAS)
Philip and the Ethiopian:
Acts 8:26-39 -- "But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, "Arise
and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert
road ) And he arose and went; and behold, there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court
official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and
he had come to Jerusalem to worship. And he was returning and sitting in his
chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go
up and join this chariot." And when Philip had run up, he heard him reading
Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
And he said, "Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited
Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of Scripture which he was
reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its
shearer is silent, so He does not open His mouth. "In humiliation His judgment
was taken away; who shall relate His generation? For His life is removed from the
earth." And the eunuch answered Philip and said, "Please tell me of whom
does the prophet say this? Of himself, or of someone else?" And Philip opened
his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him. And as they went
along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What
prevents me from being baptized?" And Philip said, "If you believe with
all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God." And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into
the water, Philip as well as the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they came up
out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch saw him no
more, but went on his way rejoicing." (NAS)
Ananias teaches Saul (also called Paul):
Acts 22:16 -- "And now why do you delay? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away
your sins, calling on His name.' (NAS)
Peter's instruction to Cornelius:
Acts 10:48 -- "And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Then they asked him to stay on for a few days." (NAS)
Paul teaches Lydia and her household:
Acts 16:13-15 -- "And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a
riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down
and began speaking to the women who had assembled. And a certain woman named Lydia,
from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening;
and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul. And when she
and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to
be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon
us." (NAS)
Paul teaches the jailer and his household:
Acts 16:25-33 -- "But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there came
a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and
immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's chains were unfastened. And
when the jailer had been roused out of sleep and had seen the prison doors opened, he drew
his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all
here!" And he called for lights and rushed in and, trembling with fear, he fell
down before Paul and Silas, and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must
I do to be saved?" And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be
saved, you and your household." And they spoke the word of the Lord to him
together with all who were in his house. And he took them that very hour of the
night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced
greatly, having believed in God with his whole household." (NAS)
Paul teaches Crispus and the Corinthians:
Acts 18:8 -- "And Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord
with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and
being baptized." (NAS)
Paul re-baptizes the followers of John the baptist:
Acts 19:1-5 -- "And it came about that while Apollos was at
Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found some
disciples, and he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you
believed?" And they said to him, "No, we have not even heard whether there is
a Holy Spirit." And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" And
they said, "Into John's baptism." And Paul said, "John baptized with
the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him,
that is, in Jesus." And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus." (NAS)
Those in the city of Rome:
Romans 6:3-5 -- "Or do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been
buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For
if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be
also in the likeness of His resurrection..." (NAS)
Those in the city of Corinth:
1 Corinthians 6:11 -- "And such were some of you; but you were
washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and in the Spirit of our God." (NAS)
1 Corinthians 12:13 -- "For by one Spirit we were all baptized
into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to
drink of one Spirit." (NAS)
Those in the region of Galatia:
Galatians 3:26-28 -- "For you are all sons of God through faith
in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed
yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor
free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
(NAS)
Those in the city of Ephesus:
Ephesians 5:25-27 -- "...just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of
water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her
glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and
blameless." (NAS)
Those in the city of Colossae:
Colossians 2:12-14 -- "...having been buried with Him in baptism,
in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised
Him from the dead. And when you were dead in your transgressions and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all
our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees
against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having
nailed it to the cross." (NAS)
To Titus:
Titus 3:4-7 -- "But when the kindness of God our Savior and His
love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in
righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by
the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that
being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal
life." (NAS)
To the Hebrews:
Hebrews 10:19-22 -- "Since therefore, brethren, we have
confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He
inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great
priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water." (NAS)
To those who reside in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and
Bithynia:
1 Peter 3:18-22 -- "For Christ also died for sins once for all,
the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to
death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made
proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience
of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a
few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. And
corresponding to that, baptism now saves you-- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but
an appeal to God for a good conscience-- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is
at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers
had been subjected to Him." (NAS)
The revelation to John:
Revelation 22:14 -- "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that
they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the
city." (NAS)
The instructions that Jesus gave, before He ascended into heaven:
Matthew 28:18-20 -- "And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying,
"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. "Go therefore
and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo,
I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (NAS)
Mark 16:15-16 -- "And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the
gospel to all creation. "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be
saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned." (NAS)
Luke 24:45-47 -- "Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and He
said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from
the dead the third day; and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed
in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem." (NAS)
John 3:5, 16, 36 -- "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"..."For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life"..."He who
believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abides on him." (NAS)
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