Acts 1:22
beginning from his baptism by John, until the day in which he was taken up from us, must there be chosen with us a witness of his resurrection, even one of these.
Acts 1:2
until that day, when having given a charge to his apostles through the Holy Ghost, whom he had chosen, he was taken up:
Acts 1:8-9
But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses for me, both in Jerusalem, and throughout all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the extremity of the earth.
Acts 4:33
And with great power bore the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Matthew 3:1-17
THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea,
Mark 1:1-8
THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Luke 3:1-18
NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene:
John 1:28-51
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptising.
John 15:27
and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Acts 13:24-25
John having preached before his first coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which, commencing at the beginning to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by those who had heard him;