Quotes About John the Baptist

John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.

The ministry of John the Baptist where he passed-on all the sins of the people of this world onto Jesus was truly a righteous act. This is the gospel of the atonement for sins, the righteousness of God, and the way toward salvation John witnessed. In order for us to receive salvation, we must realize and believe in our hearts both Jesus' baptism and His shed blood, and His resurrection, which makes up the gospel of the atonement for sins.

Jesus completed our salvation by taking-on the sins of the entire world through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, and dying on the Cross, after atoned for all these sins.

Just as the High Priest performed the laying on of the hands on the head of a scapegoat to transfer all the yearly sins of the Israelites, as so vividly depicted in the Old Testament, likewise, John the Baptist passed-on the sins of this world onto Jesus by baptizing Him.

On the next day, seeing Jesus again John the Baptist testified once again, "Behold

At that time, John the Baptist was baptizing the Israelites for the repentance of sins and through this made them return to God.

In other words, through this baptism, John the Baptist passed all the sins of this world onto the body of Jesus Christ who is the Lamb of God.

We tend to think the Old Testament ends with the book of Malachi. But Luke 16:16 says, "The law and the prophets were until John," which means that while the final official book of the Old Testament is Malachi, the period of the Old Testament ends with John the Baptist as the last of the prophets under the Law.

As far as we have any historical information on the subject, the public history of Jesus began when he was about thirty years old (Luke 3.23), with John the Baptist.

what clear doctrine characterized John the Baptist's preaching. He exalted Christ – "After me One is coming who is mightier than I." He spoke plainly of the Holy Spirit – "He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

Doris is very religious. She says it is a comfort. Her minister is plump and pink, and if he met John the Baptist in tatters in the desert, stuffing dead locusts into that parched mouth for food, and blazing the New Kingdom out of those terrible eyesockets, he would faint. But so would I, likely.

Matthew 11:12? "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it." Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines?

For all other writings should point to the Scriptures, as John pointed to Christ; when he said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." [John 3:30]

John the Baptist would have looked debonair in comparison, even after Salome got her prize.

John the Baptist Was indeed a Messenger of God Matthew 11:11-14 bears witness to John the Baptist. Let

These Words of Jesus speaks the Truth that God put John the Baptist here as the representative of all of humankind, and also had him baptize Jesus. As Jesus was bearing witness of John the Baptist He said, "Why did you go out into the wilderness?

by being baptized by John the Baptist, shedding His blood by dying on the Cross, and through this saved all the sinners of the world from their sins.

When Jesus walked toward John the Baptist the day after He was baptized, John the Baptist bore witness by saying to the people, "Please take a look at Him. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. You people, take a look at Him! He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." Because he had passed-on all the sins of humanity onto Jesus by the baptism, he was able to bear witness personally to the fact that Jesus was the Savior.

The Bible clearly writes and bears witness about John the Baptist of this fact.

John the Baptist who was described by Jesus like this bore witness to Jesus also by confirming, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"(John 1:29) It was John the Baptist who bore witness of Jesus by confirming, "Look! Jesus took away all the sins of the world, and He is none other than the Son of God;

Because in A.D. 30, Jesus took-on the sins of the world completely by receiving baptism from John the Baptist, John the Baptist pointed out Jesus the next day and said

it was John the Baptist who testified, "Having taken-on the sins of the world by His baptism, Jesus carried them all away to the Cross.

Jesus personally bore witness to the fact that John the Baptist passed-on all the sins of the world onto Him. The Words in Matthew 11:12 bear witness that the sins of the world that being, all the sins of mankind were been passed onto Jesus by John baptizing Jesus.

Because of John the Baptist witness and those who are faithful, it becomes possible for humankind to believe that the baptism Jesus received was the baptism of taking-on the sins of all humanity; and because of this, Jesus had to shed His precious blood on the Cross.