And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.”
And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all wondered.
during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,
John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
added this to them all, that he locked up John in prison.
and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”
And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”
Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,
The disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John,
And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”
And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.
When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
And when he came to the house, he allowed no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child.
Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,
Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.
And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.”
Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.
John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.”
And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.
was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”
But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.”
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,
One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized
(for John had not yet been put in prison).
Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
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