Acts 1:5

Easy-to-Read Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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!"

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

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

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."

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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."

Contextual Overview

¹ Dear Theophilus, The first book I wrote was about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning ² until the day he was carried up into heaven. Before he went, he talked to the apostles he had chosen. With the help of the Holy Spirit, he told them what they should do. ³ This was after his death, but he showed them that he was alive, proving it to them in many ways. The apostles saw Jesus many times during the 40 days after he was raised from death. He spoke to them about God's kingdom. ⁴ One time when Jesus was eating with them, he told them not to leave Jerusalem. He said, "Wait here until you receive what the Father promised to send. Remember, I told you about it before. ⁵ John baptized people with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

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 named that space "sky." There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:13
There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the third day.

Genesis 1:19
There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made. And he saw that everything was very good. There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth."

Psalms 19:2
Each new day tells more of the story, and each night reveals more and more about God's power.

Psalms 74:16
You control the day and the night. You made the sun and the moon.

Psalms 104:20
You made darkness to be the night— the time when wild animals come out and roam around.

Isaiah 45:7
I made the light and the darkness. I bring peace, and I cause trouble. I, the Lord , do 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.