Mark 1:4

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

To give to His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

after John had preached before His coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Then Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”