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so John the baptizer appeared[a] in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.(A) And the whole Judean region and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him and were baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.

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  1. 1.4 Other ancient authorities read John was baptizing

The Proclamation of John the Baptist

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,(A) during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.(B) He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

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45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day(A) 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.(B)

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  1. 24.46 Or the Christ
  2. 24.46 Other ancient authorities read written, and thus it was necessary for the Messiah

30 The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.(A) 31 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior that he might give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.(B)

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