Baptism: John's

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

I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. …

What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” …

John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”

Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”

…asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.

All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”

I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’

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

Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.

For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

…beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:

Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.

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.”