“And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,”
1 Peter 3:21
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Connection with Noah's ark
The water here is the flood of Noah's day (1 Peter 3:20). The ark carried its eight people through the judgment and out the other side into a washed world, and Peter says baptism pictures that same rescue, through the resurrection of Jesus.
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Cross-References
Water of the flood — baptism that now saves you, an appeal to God
“Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.”
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