“saves.” Although it does not wash away sins, it “saves” those with a “good conscience” by appealing on their behalf to God the only Savior. διʼ ἀναστάσεως Ἰησοοῦ Χριστοῦ, “through the raising of Jesus Christ.” Because of the immediately preceding parenthesis, this phrase depends on σῴζει in v 21a: the water of baptism “saves you … through the raising of Jesus Christ”—just as God brings about new birth “through the raising of Jesus Christ from the dead” in 1:3. In both instances, God, who