Mark 1:4

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

About this time, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Judean wilderness,

and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached.

Before Jesus' appearance, John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people in Israel.

He then asked, "Then into what were you baptized?" They answered, "Into John's baptism."

So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.'