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Want to know what the Bible says about John The Baptist? Here are 125 Bible verses about John The Baptist from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Deuteronomy 18:15 NIV
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
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Luke 1:76 NIV
And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
    for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
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Matthew 3:2 NIV
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
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Luke 1:80 NIV
And the child grew and became strong in spirit ; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.
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Isaiah 40:3-5 NIV
3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
    the way for the Lord ;
make straight in the desert
    a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be raised up,
    every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level,
    the rugged places a plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,
    and all people will see it together.
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
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Matthew 3:7-10 NIV
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. 10 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Matthew 14:1 NIV
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus,
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Matthew 3:11 NIV
“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
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Luke 7:27 NIV
This is the one about whom it is written:
“‘I will send my messenger ahead of you,
    who will prepare your way before you.’
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Luke 7:33 NIV
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
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Mark 1:2 NIV
as it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
“I will send my messenger ahead of you,
    who will prepare your way”
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John 1:6-8 NIV
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
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Mark 6:17 NIV
For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.
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Matthew 3:15 NIV
Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
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Matthew 3:13-15 NIV
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
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Luke 1:13 NIV
But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.
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Matthew 3:11-12 NIV
11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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Luke 3:1 NIV
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—
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Matthew 3:5-6 NIV
5 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. 6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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Luke 3:4-6 NIV
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
    make straight paths for him.
5 Every valley shall be filled in,
    every mountain and hill made low.
The crooked roads shall become straight,
    the rough ways smooth.
6 And all people will see God’s salvation.’”
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