Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 6:3

"Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" — Romans 6:3 (ASV)

Do you not know that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

If we are in Christ at all, we are partakers of his death; and as his was a death for sin and a death to sin, we are made partakers of it; we are really dead because Christ died, and we are in him. Therefore we are dead to the old life, to the old way of sin. We signify that by our baptism.

Do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

That is the very hinge of our religion. His death, not into his example merely, nor primarily into his life, but into his death. In this we have believed – with a dying Saviour we are linked, and our baptism sets this forth. We were baptized into his death.

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Was not that the real meaning of our baptism? Did it have any meaning whatever unless we were really dead with Christ and therefore were buried with him?