(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.”

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.

So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Instructed by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

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

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their boat mending nets.

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);