<p>1:5 <em>For John indeed baptized with water, </em><i>but soon you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit</i>- The implication is that they had all been baptized by John the Baptist; his work of preparing the way for the Lord succeeded with that small group, even if it failed nationally. The contrast is between <i>with</i> water and <i>in </i>Spirit. I suggest therefore that the baptism in the Spirit refers to something internal and psychological, the gift of the Spirit in human hearts promised as &ldquo;the comforter&rdquo; in Jn. 14-16, which in some cases in the first century was manifest by visible external signs.</p>