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 that time John the Baptist first appeared, proclaiming in the Wilderness of Judea:

And when Annas and Caiaphas were High Priests, a Command from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, while he was in the wilderness.

John, also, was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there were many streams there; and people were constantly coming and being baptized.

You yourselves know the story which spread through all Judea, how, beginning form Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed--

John having first proclaimed, before the appearance of Jesus, a baptism upon repentance for all the people of Israel.

"What then was your baptism?" Paul asked.

And now why wait any longer: Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his Name.