Mark 1:9
The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.
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- Matt 2:23 : 23 He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.
- Matt 3:13-17 : 13 The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River. 14 But John tried to prevent him, saying,“I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?” 15 So Jesus replied to him,“Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him. 16 After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
- Luke 3:21-22 : 21 The Baptism of Jesus Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven,“You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”
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- Matt 3:13-175 verses88%
13The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.
14But John tried to prevent him, saying,“I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”
15So Jesus replied to him,“Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him.
16After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.
17And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
- Mark 1:10-123 verses87%
10And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
11And a voice came from heaven:“You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”
12The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.
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7He proclaimed,“One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.
8I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
- Luke 3:21-222 verses82%
21The Baptism of Jesus Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,
22and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven,“You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”
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28These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.
- Mark 1:1-55 verses81%
1¶ The Ministry of John the Baptist The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2As it is written in the prophet Isaiah,“Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,
3the voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”
4In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
- Matt 3:1-22 verses81%
1The Ministry of John the Baptist In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,
2“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- John 3:22-232 verses80%
22Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.
23John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.
- Matt 3:5-62 verses80%
5Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,
6and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
- John 1:30-345 verses79%
30This is the one about whom I said,‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’
31I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”
32Then John testified,“I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
33And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining– this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.”
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1Questions About Divorce Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River.
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3He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
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24Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.
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14Preaching in Galilee and the Call of the Disciples Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.
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5For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
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26So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”
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6A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.
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37you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:
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12Preaching in Galilee Now when Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, he went into Galilee.
13While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
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16John answered them all,“I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming– I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
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26John answered them,“I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,
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40Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.
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29(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
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1The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
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2(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
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11“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
- Acts 19:3-42 verses73%
3So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.
4Paul said,“John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
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4John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people?”
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1The Feeding of the Five Thousand After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee(also called the Sea of Tiberias).