Acts 13:24

John having before proclaimed the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, before His coming.

beginning from the baptism of John to that same day that He was taken up from us, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.

In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

as it is written in the Prophets, "Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests-- the Word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

There was a man sent from God; his name was John.

John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, This was He of whom I spoke: He who comes after me has been before me, for He was preceding me.

Then a question from John's disciples arose with the Jews about purification.

You sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth.

that word which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed;

And he said to them, Then to what were you baptized? And they said, To John's baptism.

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When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.