Baptism in the Holy Spirit
To be plunged into the Holy Spirit's life and power
Baptism in the Holy Spirit refers to the believer's reception of, or immersion in, the Holy Spirit, with roots in Pentecost and the Gospels. The traditions differ on what it is: Pentecostal and charismatic Christians often treat it as a distinct experience following conversion, frequently marked by spiritual gifts, while others identify it with conversion itself or with water baptism rather than a separate event.
How it traveled
- ActsRome · c. 84 CEexplains
- LukeRome · c. 84 CEexplains
- JohnEphesus · c. 100 CEexplains
- The Catechetical Lectures of S. CyrilJerusalem · c. 386 CEexplains
- A Commentary on the Acts of the ApostlesConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
Key passages(20)
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For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
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A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles · John Chrysostom
Consider also how necessary He made it for them to abide in Jerusalem, by promising that the Spirit should be granted them. For lest they should again flee away after His Ascension, by this expectatio
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I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’
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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem
Gen. ii. 7: and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Compare Cat. xiv. 10. Nahum ii. 1. The Septuagint, followed by Cyril, differs widely from the Hebrew: (R.V.) He that dasheth in pieces i
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“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”
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Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
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They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
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I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
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John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
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I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom
This accordingly the prophet also was intimating, when he said, “Look unto the hard rock, whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit, whence ye are digged: look unto Abraham your father, and unto
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, What took place with respect to Christ in His baptism, as Chrysostom says (Hom. iv in Matth. [*From the supposititious Opus Imperfectum]), "is connected with the mystery accomplished in
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Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom
Homily XXIX. 1 Cor. xii. 1, 2 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might
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43. Nor ought it to seem opposed to this, that although subsequently mention is not made of the Spirit, He is yet believed in, and what had not been mentioned in words is expressed in belief. For when
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When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
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Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism. · Appendix
A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer. ———————————— Argument.—That They Who Have Once Been Washed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Ought Not to Be Re-Baptized. 1. I observe that it h
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Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards
John the Baptist was not only a burning but a shining light: he was so in his doctrine, having more of the gospel in his preaching than the former prophets, or at least the gospel exhibited with great
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John · John Chrysostom
“How then didst thou know Him?” “By the descent of the Spirit,” he saith. But again, lest any one should suppose that he was in need Ver. 33.) Seest thou that this was the work of the Spirit, to poin
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom
And mark again how he rouses the hearer, by putting that first which was to take place after all. For the Lamb was to be slain, and sin to be blotted out, and the enmity to be destroyed, and the buria
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A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles · John Chrysostom
Let us now look over again what has been said. [“And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.”] (Recapitulation, v. 23.) See
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