Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
Parallel translations
- WEB so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
- BSB so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.
- NKJV lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.
- NASB so that no one would say you were baptized in my name!
- NLT for now no one can say they were baptized in my name.
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Quick answer
Paul's limited baptizing meant no one could claim to be baptized into his name. The focus stays on Christ, not the minister.
Overview
This continues Paul's point: by baptizing few, he removed any pretext for people attaching themselves to him personally. Baptism marks union with Christ, never with the one administering it. Paul deliberately deflects glory away from himself toward the Lord into whose name believers are baptized.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- John 7:18He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
- 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
- John 3:28–29Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
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