The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.