Romans 6:5

"We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life."

Key Reflection

The original audience would have been familiar with the custom and significance of baptism through immersion, which symbolized a burial and resurrection much like Christ’s experience. Just as believers were buried under water and emerged cleansed, they understood that this ritual signified their spiritual death to sin and new life in Christ, all facilitated by God's glory.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 5. For if we have been planted together. The word here used (sumfutoi) does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It properly means, sown or planted at the same time; that which sprouts or springs up together; and is applied to plants and trees that are planted at the same time, and that sprout and grow together. Thus the name would be given to a field of grain that was sown a the same time, and where the grain sprung up and grew simultaneously. Hence it means intimately connected, or joined together. And here it denotes that Christians and the Saviour have been united intimately in regard to death; as he died and was laid in the grave, so have they by profession died to sin.

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