Mark 1:4

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John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

In those days John the Baptist appeared, and kept preaching in the desert of Judea,

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the message of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the desert.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

You know the story yourselves that spread all over Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached,

as John, before His coming, had already preached baptism as an expression of repentance, for all the people of Israel.

He then asked, "With what sort of baptism then were you baptized?" They answered, "With John's baptism."

And now, why are you waiting? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away by calling on His name.'