I indeed baptize you with water] Meaning, that he onely administred the externall sign and Sacrament, but Christ would give the inward effect thereof, for the washing away their sinnes. See Matthew 3:11. Mark 1:8. John 1:26. Acts 1:5. Acts 11:16. & Acts 19:4. and with fire] Meaning that he should cleanse them from their sinnes, as fire doth the gold from drosse. See Acts 2:3.