John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

John went throughout the entire Jordan region, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

By having been baptized with John's baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice.

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and what stress I am under until it's completed!

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 had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

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

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

When you were buried with the Messiah in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clear conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah,