To understand what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is, we need to first understand why Jesus was baptized by John and died on the Cross. As Romans 3:23 states, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” every human being is born as a sinner who cannot but commit iniquities before God, and according to Romans 6:23, which tells us that “the wages of sin is death,” each and every one of mankind therefore cannot avoid but be punished to death as the wages of sin.