8 Bible Verses about John's Baptism
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But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.
And people from all over Judea and everybody in Jerusalem kept on going out to him and being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
as John, before His coming, had already preached baptism as an expression of repentance, for all the people of Israel.
And he went all over the Jordan valley, preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins,
And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, vindicated the righteous requirements of God by submitting to John's baptism,
It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, by passing through the inland districts, came to Ephesus. He found a few disciples there and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered him, "So far from that, we never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." He then asked, "With what sort of baptism then were you baptized?" They answered, "With John's baptism."read more.
Then Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism that was an expression of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him; that is, in Jesus." On hearing this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in foreign tongues and to prophesy. In all there were about twelve men.
and I remembered the saying of the Lord, 'John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
Then Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism that was an expression of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him; that is, in Jesus."