Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Remission
Bible References
Did
Matthew 3:1
In those days, John the Immerser went into the desert of Judea preaching [to Jews], saying,
Luke 3:2
[During this time], while Annas and Caiaphas [Note: This man was Annas' son-in-law. See John 18:13] were head priests, God's message came to John [the Immerser], son of Zacharias, [when he was] in the desert [of Judea].
John 3:23
John [the Immerser] was also immersing people in Aenon, near Salem [Note: These locations are thought to have been in northeastern Judea, near the Jordan River], because there was a lot of water there; so people were coming to be immersed.
Acts 10:37
You yourselves know [all this, and] how this message was proclaimed throughout Judea, having begun from Galilee after the preaching of the immersion [taught and practiced] by John.
Acts 13:24
His coming occurred after John [the Immerser] had preached to Israel that those who repented should be immersed [as evidence that they had done so].
Acts 19:3
Paul [again] asked, "Into what were you immersed then?" They answered him, "Into John's immersion."
Remission
Acts 22:16
So now, what are you waiting for? Get up and be immersed [into Christ], and have your sins washed away as you appeal to His name [i.e., to Christ's authority].'