John

When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

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

Many came to Him and said, “Although John never performed a sign, everything he said about this man was true.”

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, as He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

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

As John was completing his course, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not that One. But He is coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

“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.”