Mark 1:8
I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
I indeed have baptized you with water,.... This was spoken to the baptized persons, partly to take off their dependence upon him and his baptism; and partly to direct their views to Christ, from whom the gifts and graces of the Spirit are alone to be had:
but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost;
See Gill on "Matthew 3:11". One copy adds, "and with fire", as there: a Jewish writer says, the holy blessed God baptizeth with fire, and the wise shall understand {p}.
{p} R. Menachem in Lev. viii. apud Ainsworth on Gen. xvii. 12.
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