I agree but it is done at baptism.
38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
No; that is their Israelite water ritual.
Acts 22:
12. And one Ananias,
a devout man according to the law, having
a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
13. Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
14. And he said,
The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
15. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
16. And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized,
and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
That is an Israelite water ritual.
1 Peter 3:
18. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20. Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
This Israelite water ritual did not really put away the filth of the flesh, rather; it symbolized the
outward answer of a good conscience toward what God commanded. It symbolized the answer of a good conscience toward God by an Israelite before his nation.
Luke 7:
29. And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30. But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Acts 21:
18. And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.
19. And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought
among the Gentiles by his ministry.
20. And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are
which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
21. And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are
among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the
customs.
Guess who was now perceived in need of one of Israel's "divers washings" because he had been "among the Gentiles"?
22. What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
Uh, oh, the Jews are comin; Paul - better wash up Paul; the answer of a good conscience before God under our Law:
23. Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24. Them take,
and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing;
but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Just for you Turbo:
25. As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood,
and from strangled, and from fornication.
What about for Paul?
26. Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
Water baptism, then enter the Temple and offer an animal sacrifice.
Here come the Jews!
27. And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him
in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
28. Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple,
and hath
polluted this holy place.
Paul's defense a few chapters later - Peter's "the answer of a good conscience towards God:
Acts 24:
16. And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.
17. Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
18. Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me
purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
And all that even as a transition was taking place. As if often the case in many aspects of life.
But you two really need to study these water rituals out in the OT.
John 2:
6. And there were set there six
waterpots of stone,
after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
