John's disciples came and took his body away, and buried him, and then they went and reported it to Jesus.

Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

John's clothing was made of hair cloth, and the belt around his waist was leather, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

and he immediately sent one of his guard with orders to get John's head.

Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me."

They said to him, "John's disciples observe frequent fasts and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples eat and drink."

John's disciples told him of all this,

When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind?

Men of Nineveh will rise with this generation at the Judgment and will condemn it, for they repented at Jonah's preaching, and there is more than Jonah here.

Tell me, did John's baptism come from heaven or from men?"

So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification.

But I have higher testimony than John's, for the things that my Father has intrusted to me to accomplish, the very things that I am doing, are proof that my Father has sent me,

He had John's brother, James, beheaded,

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

"How then were you baptized?" he asked. "With John's baptism," they answered.

"John's baptism was a baptism in token of repentance," said Paul, "and he told the people to believe in him who was to follow him, that is, in Jesus."