Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,
Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,
And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him.
therefore I did not presume to come to you. But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed.
When he saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”
I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.
Crispus, the official of the synagogue, became a believer in the Lord, together with all his household, and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul became believers and were baptized.
When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.
Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”
So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”
In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by the removal of the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God…
For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come and then ha…