Acts 1:5

Amplified Bible

"For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized and empowered and united with the Holy Spirit, not long from now."

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For Iohn in deede baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost within these fewe daies.

Christian Standard Bible®
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit in a few days.”

Hebrew Names Version
For Yochanan indeed immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh not many days from now."

Darby Translation
For John indeed baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.

Easy-to-Read Version
John baptized people with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

American Standard Version
for John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

Berean Standard Bible
For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

Contemporary English Version
John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Yochanan used to immerse people in water; but in a few days, you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh!"

International Standard Version
For John baptized within">[fn] water, but you will be baptized within">[fn] the Holy Spirit not many days from now."Joel 3:18; Matthew 3:11; Acts 2:4; 11:15-16; 19:4;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For Juhanon baptized with waters, but you shall be baptized with the Spirit of Holiness after days not many.

Murdock Translation
For John baptized with water; but ye will be baptized with the Holy Spirit after not many days.

King James Version (1611)
For Iohn truely baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost, not many dayes hence.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For Iohn truely baptized with water, but ye shalbe baptized with the holy ghost, after these fewe dayes.

English Revised Version
For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

King James Version
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

Lexham English Bible
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Literal Translation
for John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days after."

New Century Version
John baptized people with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

New English Translation
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

New King James Version
for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

New Living Translation
John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

New Life Bible
For John the Baptist baptized with water but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

New Revised Standard
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, John, indeed, immersed with water; but, ye, in Holy Spirit shall be immersed, - after not many of these days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.

George Lamsa Translation
For John baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

Good News Translation
John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

Webster's Bible Translation
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.

Weymouth's New Testament
For John indeed baptized with water, but before many days have passed you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for Joon baptiside in watir, but ye schulen be baptisid in the Hooli Goost, aftir these fewe daies.

Young's Literal Translation
because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'

World English Bible
For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Revised Standard Version
for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For Iohn baptised wt water: but ye shalbe baptised with the holy goost and that with in this feawe dayes.

Update Bible Version
For John indeed baptized in water; but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

Bible in Basic English
For the baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit, after a little time.

New American Standard Bible
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For Ihon baptysed with water, but ye shalbe baptysed wt ye holy goost, & that within this few dayes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
" for John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost, not many days hence."

Simplified Cowboy Version
John the Baptizer used water, but in a few days you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Legacy Standard Bible
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Contextual Overview

¹The first account I made, Theophilus, was [a continuous report] about all the things that Jesus began to do and to teach ²until the day when He ascended to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given instruction to the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen. ³To these [men] He also showed Himself alive after His suffering [in Gethsemane and on the cross], by [a series of] many infallible proofs and unquestionable demonstrations, appearing to them over a period of forty days and talking to them about the things concerning the kingdom of God. ⁴While being together and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Of which," He said, "you have heard Me speak. ⁵"For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized and empowered and united with the Holy Spirit, not long from now."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John: Acts 11:15, Acts 19:4, Matthew 3:11, Luke 3:16, John 1:31, 1 Corinthians 12:13, Titus 3:5

but: Acts 2:1-4, Acts 2:16-21, Acts 10:45, Acts 11:15, Joel 2:28-32, Joel 3:18

Reciprocal: Psalms 47:5 - God Matthew 3:6 - were Matthew 3:14 - I have Mark 1:8 - he shall John 1:26 - I John 1:33 - the same John 16:7 - but Acts 2:4 - filled Acts 11:16 - how Galatians 3:14 - might Revelation 22:1 - proceeding

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease."

Psalms 19:2
Day after day pours forth speech, And night after night reveals knowledge.

Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.

Psalms 104:20
You [O LORD] make darkness and it becomes night, In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

Isaiah 45:7
The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For John truly baptized with water,.... Or "in water", as he himself says, Matthew 3:11 John's baptism was water baptism, an immersion of persons in water: he was the first administrator of it, and therefore is here mentioned by name; and his, and the baptism of the Spirit, are opposed; for there were others, as the disciples of Christ, that baptized in water as well as John: and these words are not to be understood of the words of the Lord, by the mouth of John, which the disciples heard, for they were not then called when John spoke the words in Matthew 3:11 nor indeed are they the same with these; but these are the words of Christ himself, and which the apostles heard from his own mouth, as is clear from Acts 11:16 though they are not recorded by any of the evangelists; and these are not the only words which Luke repeats, that the evangelists are silent about; see

Acts 20:35

but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost; that is, by himself; for it is Christ's prerogative to baptize with the Spirit, as John foretold of him, and it designs such an extraordinary and plentiful donation of the gifts of the Spirit, as may be expressed by a baptism; in which the apostles, on the day of "Pentecost", were, as it were, to be immersed, and with them covered; as Cyril of Jerusalem h observes,

"as he, ο ενδυνων εν τοις υδασι, "who is plunged in water, and baptized", is encompassed by the water on every side, so are they that are wholly baptized by the Spirit.''

Not many days hence; within ten days, for this was on the fortieth day from his death, which was at the passover, these words were said; and on the fiftieth day from thence was the feast of Pentecost, when this had its fulfilment.

h Cateches. 17. sect. 8. p. 247.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For John truly baptized ... - These are the words of Jesus to his apostles, and he evidently has reference to what was said of John’s baptism compared with his own in Matthew 3:11; John 1:33. In those verses John is represented as baptizing with water, but the Messiah who was to come, as baptizing with the Holy Spirit and with fire. This promise was now about to be fulfilled in a remarkable manner. See Acts 2:0.

Not many days hence - This was probably spoken not long before his ascension, and of course not many days before the day of Pentecost.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 1:5. Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. — This must refer to some conversation that is not distinctly related by the evangelists; as these identical words do not occur in any of the preceding histories. The Codex Bezae reads this passage thus: but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, which ye shall receive not many days hence. John baptized with water, which was a sign of penitence, in reference to the remission of sin; but Christ baptizes with the Holy Ghost, for the destruction of sin, the illumination of the mind, and the consolation of the heart. John's baptism was in reference to the spiritual kingdom; but Christ's baptism established and maintained that kingdom. From this passage we may also learn that baptism does not always mean being plunged or immersed in water; for as this promise most evidently refers to the communication of the Holy Spirit on the following pentecost, and then he sat upon each as a cloven tongue of fire, this certainly has more affinity to sprinkling than to plunging. However, the mode of administering the sign is of very little consequence; and which is the best mode is exceedingly dubious: the stress should be laid on receiving the thing signified-the Holy Ghost, to illuminate, regenerate, refine, and purify the heart. With this, sprinkling or immersion are equally efficient: without this, both are worth nothing.