Matthew 3:11

Which verses does Matthew 3:11 point to?

The 20 strongest of 27, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Isaiah 4:427 votes

   when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

2. Luke 3:1626 votes

   John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

3. Acts 1:523 votes

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

4. Zechariah 13:915 votes

   This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

5. Malachi 3:2–413 votes

   But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness. …

6. Mark 1:7–813 votes

   And he proclaimed: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

7. Acts 2:2–413 votes

   Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. …

8. Titus 3:511 votes

   He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

9. Acts 11:15–1610 votes

   As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning. Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

10. John 1:33–348 votes

    I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

11. 1 Corinthians 12:138 votes
12. John 1:26–277 votes
13. Matthew 3:66 votes

    Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

14. Luke 1:175 votes

    And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

15. Acts 19:45 votes

    Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

16. Mark 1:44 votes
17. John 1:304 votes
18. Isaiah 59:20–213 votes
19. John 3:23–363 votes
20. Galatians 3:27–283 votes

    For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Which verses point to Matthew 3:11?

The 10 strongest of 61.

• John 3:5 27
• Acts 1:5 23
• Luke 3:16 20
• Acts 2:3 19
• Luke 12:49 14
• John 14:26 14
• John 1:15 13
• John 1:33 12
• John 1:6 11
• Matthew 8:8 10