βάπτισμα

Matthew 3:7 βάπτισμα baptism

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Here: John's once-for-all dipping in the Jordan, tied to confessing sins and turning back to God before the coming judgment. It is not yet the later Christian rite.

Matthew 21:25 βάπτισμα baptism

What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Here: John's ritual of immersion in the Jordan for repentance. The word stands for John's whole prophetic ministry: his message, his call to turn back, and the rite that sealed it.

Mark 1:4 βάπτισμα [a] baptism

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 10:38 βάπτισμα baptism

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

Here: An immersion or plunging. It is used here as a picture of being overwhelmed by suffering, like going under deep waters. It is not a reference to the church's water rite.

Mark 10:39 βάπτισμα baptism

“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

Here: An immersion used as a picture: being plunged under, overwhelmed, as by flood waters. Here it means being swamped by suffering and death. It is not the church's water rite. Like 'cup', it is placed first for emphasis.

Mark 11:30 βάπτισμα baptism

John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”

Luke 3:3 βάπτισμα a baptism

He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Here: The act of being immersed in water. What John announces is a rite: people were to come and be immersed. This is a word Christians formed (it is not found in earlier Greek), and here it names John's washing, before any Christian baptism existed.

Luke 7:29 βάπτισμα baptism

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

Here: The verb and its own noun are paired ('baptized with the baptism'). This is John's one-time immersion of repentance for forgiveness of sins (3:3). It is not yet Christian baptism.

Luke 12:50 βάπτισμα Baptism

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Here: Placed first for emphasis: 'an immersion is what I have ahead of me.' Here it is a picture, not a ritual: being plunged under and overwhelmed. In context it means the suffering and death waiting for Jesus in Jerusalem.

Luke 20:4 βάπτισμα baptism

John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”

Acts 1:22 βαπτίσματος baptism

beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Here: John's ritual of immersion in the Jordan, and by extension the whole movement and period of John's preaching, the setting in which Jesus first appeared in public.

Acts 10:37 βάπτισμα baptism

You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:

Acts 13:24 βάπτισμα a baptism

Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Here: The washing in water that John performed. It is the object of "heralded": what John announced was an immersion people were called to undergo.

Acts 18:25 βάπτισμα baptism

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Here: The immersion rite John practiced. In Luke–Acts the phrase also stands for John's whole message of repentance in preparation for the one coming after him (Acts 1:22; 10:37; 13:24; 19:4).

Acts 19:3 βάπτισμα.¶ baptism.

“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.

Here: The noun for the act of immersion as a defined rite. In the next verse Paul describes John's baptism as "a baptism of repentance" that looked ahead to the one coming after him.

Acts 19:4 βάπτισμα a baptism

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.”

Here: The noun matching the verb ("immersed an immersion"), an emphatic Semitic-flavored way of saying what kind of washing it was. The kind is then given: one marked by repentance.

Romans 6:4 βαπτίσματος baptism

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Here: The Christian rite of initiation, a word built from the verb "to dip, immerse, plunge." Here it is the event through which believers entered Christ's death.

Ephesians 4:5 βάπτισμα, baptism,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

Here: The single rite of entry that every believer, Jewish or Gentile, went through when joining the community 'into the name of the Lord Jesus'. Everyone in the congregation shared it, which is why it can stand as a sign that they belong together.

1 Peter 3:21 βάπτισμα, baptism,

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Here: The grammatical subject, held back until after the verb and added as an explanation: 'which now saves you, namely baptism'. It refers to the Christian rite of initiation in water that Peter's readers had gone through.