Who was the first person to be baptized with the Holy Spirit?

Canonical gospels
In Mark 1 and John 1, the Baptist proclaimed that Jesus "will baptize in (the) Holy Spirit"; while in Matthew 3 and Luke 3, he "will baptize with Holy Spirit and fire". Jesus is considered the first person to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Who was the very first person to be baptized?

This gospel, today generally believed by scholars to be the first and to have been used as a basis for Matthew and Luke, begins with Jesus' baptism by John, who preached a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. John says of Jesus that he will baptize not with water but with the Holy Spirit.
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Who was baptized first Jesus or John?

Jesus came to John the Baptist while he was baptising people in the River Jordan. John tried to make him change his mind, but Jesus answered, “In this way we will do all that God requires.” So John agreed. As soon as Jesus was baptised, he came up out of the water.
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When was the first baptism?

Both the New Testament and the Church Fathers of the 2nd century make it clear that the gift of salvation belongs to children, however. Tertullian seems to have been the first to object to infant baptism, suggesting that by the 2nd century it was already a common practice.
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Was Adam baptized?

Adam was baptized, received the Holy Ghost, and was ordained to the priesthood, Moses 6:51–68.
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What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit?



Did baptism start with John the Baptist?

John the Baptist adopted baptism as the central sacrament in his messianic movement, seen as a forerunner of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles.
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Was Enoch Baptised?

Enoch had authority from God to baptize. All the people who believed Enoch were baptized and came closer to the Lord. No one was poor because they took care of each other. They were called Zion because they lived together in love and righteousness.
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Who baptized John?

Paul then went to Ephesus and met some who had been baptized into "John's baptism" by Apollos but had not "received the spirit". Paul had to rebaptize them and this time, the "holy spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied" (19:1-7).
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Where did John get the idea of baptism?

In the Gospel of the Nazarenes

According to the non-canonical Gospel of the Nazarenes, the idea of being baptized by John came from the mother and brothers of Jesus, and Jesus himself, originally opposed, reluctantly accepted it.
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Who founded the sacrament of baptism?

Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration and initiation into the church that was begun by Jesus, who accepted baptism from St. John the Baptist and also ordered the Apostles to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
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Did Jesus baptize with the Holy Spirit?

Canonical gospels

Jesus is considered the first person to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus during his baptism and anointed him with power.
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Who baptized Paul?

Saul is baptized by Ananias and called Paul. Men carry a cripple since birth and set him on the steps. Christ commands Ananias to find Saul and give him sight so that he can preach of Christ.
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What name did Jesus baptize in?

Don't you think it would be strange to have everything focused on Jesus and then be baptized in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit?
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Why was John the Baptist baptising before Jesus?

John proclaims baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin, and says another will come after him who will not baptize with water, but with the Holy Spirit. Jesus comes to John, and is baptized by him in the river Jordan.
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Can you baptize twice?

Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated. The baptisms of those to be received into the Catholic Church from other Christian communities are held to be valid if administered using the Trinitarian formula. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: 1256.
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Was John's baptism of heavenly or human origin?

Applying the biblical principle we laid out at the beginning and that is, if it was ordained or commanded by God, there must be a word from the scriptures ordaining such an act to be done, to prove that the baptism of John is from heaven (from God).
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Why is John the Baptist called Elijah?

So John the Baptist was Elijah in the sense that he ministered “in the spirit and power of Elijah.” This similarity extended to John's rustic clothing (Matt 3:4; cf. 2 Kings 1:8).
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Did Jesus baptise Mary Magdalene?

“If there is any demon in me,” says Mary Magdalene in the film, “it has always been there.” But Jesus tells her otherwise: “There are no demons here.” And to her family's demand that “God made you to be a mother”, Mary Magdalene replies: “I'm not made for that life.” Instead, Jesus tells her, gently baptising her in ...
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How old was John the Baptist when he was baptized?

3:11.) Age 30 was, significantly, the age at which the Levites began their ministry and the rabbis their teaching. When Jesus “began to be about thirty years of age,” he went to be baptized of John at the river Jordan. (Luke 3:23.)
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Why did the book of Enoch get removed from the Bible?

I Enoch was at first accepted in the Christian Church but later excluded from the biblical canon. Its survival is due to the fascination of marginal and heretical Christian groups, such as the Manichaeans, with its syncretic blending of Iranian, Greek, Chaldean, and Egyptian elements.
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How did Enoch go to heaven?

The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch "walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him" (Gen 5:21–24), which is interpreted as Enoch's entering heaven alive in some Jewish and Christian traditions, and interpreted differently in others.
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Why is the book of Enoch so important?

Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and Nephilim, why some angels fell from heaven, an explanation of why the Genesis flood was morally necessary, and prophetic exposition of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah.
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Who is the Holy Spirit?

For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and is Almighty God. As such he is personal and also fully God, co-equal and co-eternal with God the Father and Son of God.
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