In those days John the Baptist arrived preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"

and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit,

in the time of the high priest Annas and [the high priest] Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salem, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

you know, the word coming to be throughout all of Judea, and beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John proclaimed,

after John had first proclaimed before His coming, the baptism of repentance to Israel.

Now as John was finishing his course, he said, 'Whom do you suppose me to be? I am not He. But behold, there comes One after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.'

And he said to them, "Into what then were you baptized?" So they said, "Into John's baptism."

But Paul said, "John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus."

And now, what are you going to do? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'