Quotes About John the Baptist

In addition, John bore witness to the fact that he had passed-on all the sins of the world by baptizing Jesus. In other words, through his witness, John the Baptist made us know about the salvation through the atonement for sins.

This age of the Law came to an end with the onset of the age of grace that is, when Jesus' received His baptism. All salvation promised by the atonement for sins during the Old Testament era came to an end with the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist. Thus,through His baptism and the shedding of His blood, the sins of all humankind were remitted, and salvation from sin was perfectly completely.

and "the Elijah who is to come"(Matthew 11:11-14). What then is the chief role that

As the representative of all mankind - John the Baptist was the one who passed the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptizing Him.

It Is Clear That John the Baptist Was the High Priest Who Was Entitled to Baptise Jesus by Laying His Hands on Jesus' Head to Atone for the Sins of the World

Because God always used a representative priest to pass-on the sins of people onto a sacrificial lamb, He had to send John the Baptist. Therefore

The second baptism was different from the first one as this was carried out when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, and this was the baptism that passed-on all the sins of the world onto the body of Jesus. John the Baptist bore witness for those who had received the baptism of repentance before God, and to believe in Jesus who had taken-on and carried the sins of the world away by His baptism.

Just as it is written in this passage, the Words of the prophecy of God that says Jesus would take-on and atone for the sins of mankind was realized. All people who believe in Jesus must believe in both the baptism and the blood of Jesus including the gospel of the atonement for sins. Because John the Baptist, the preparer of the gospel of Heaven, had passed-on the sin of the world onto Jesus for all eternity by

The news that Jesus took away all the sins of the world by having taken them onto His body when He received His baptism from John the Baptist for the atonement for sins, is the gospel of Heaven. All the sins of the world had been passed-onto Jesus through John the Baptist when Jesus received His baptism.

The phrase here, "For John came to you in the way of righteousness," speaks of the work of John the Baptist, the last High Priest of the Old Testament (Matthew 11:13), who passed-on all the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptism. Why do you think tax collectors and the harlots believed in the baptism of Jesus where John the Baptist passed-on the sins of the world onto Jesus?

By being baptized by John the Baptist Jesus fulfilled all righteousness, shouldering all these sins and carrying them to the Cross.

order to deliver us from all our sin and punishment, God sent John the Baptist, and He planned this so that Jesus could take-on all our sins through John the Baptist. If

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

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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

“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ëHe has a demon!í

and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.

Then the disciples understood that He was speaking to them about John the Baptist.