Baptism: As Administered by John

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan. …

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.

Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”