Acts 19:3-5 (KJV) John’s Baptism is Believer’s Baptism

Acts 19:3-5 (KJV)
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

In our day, when Baptist thinking has either been written off as non-academic or else has surrendered to the doctrines and compromises of Protestantism, it is refreshing to read Gill’s view concerning this passage where he says, (I will quote the whole segment),

“Then said Paul,…. In reply to their answer, understanding them that they were baptized by John, he takes it up, and gives an account of John’s baptism: showing how agreeable it was, and that it was the same baptism with the baptism of Christ, being administered in his name: John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance; which required repentance antecedent to it, and was a fruit and effect, and so an evidence of it: saying unto the people; the people of the Jews, the common people, the multitude that attended on his ministry: that they should believe on him, which should come after him, that is, on Jesus Christ; so that he preached faith in Christ, as well as repentance towards God; and made the one as well as the other a necessary prerequisite unto baptism; which shows, that his baptism and Christian baptism are the same.”

Hey, you reformed Baptists who have dismissed John the Baptist as something other than Baptist baptism John Gill, more than two hundred years ago, said that John the Baptist’s baptism and Christian Baptism are the same.

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Acts 19:3-5 (KJV) John’s Baptism is Believer’s Baptism

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