Thematic Bible: Administered by john the baptist


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Where did John's authority to baptize come from? From heaven or from humans?"

Even some tax collectors came to be baptized. They asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

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.



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

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

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."


Where did John's authority to baptize come from? From heaven or from humans?"

Even some tax collectors came to be baptized. They asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

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.



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

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

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."


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