Acts 13:24

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Before he came, John told all the people of Israel what they should do. He told them to be baptized to show they wanted to change their lives.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
when Iohn had fyrst preached before his cominge the baptyme of repentauce to Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
before his coming, when Yochanan had first preached the immersion of repentance to all the people of Yisra'el.

International Standard Version
Before his coming, John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people in Israel.Matthew 3:1; Luke 3:3;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
after John had proclaimed, before His coming, a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

New Century Version
Before Jesus came, John preached to all the people of Israel about a baptism of changed hearts and lives.

Update Bible Version
when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
John having first preached, before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

English Standard Version
Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

World English Bible
before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
John having first preached before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Weymouth's New Testament
Before the coming of Jesus, John had proclaimed to all the people of Israel a baptism of repentance.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whanne Joon prechide bifor the face of his comyng the baptym of penaunce to al the puple of Israel.

English Revised Version
when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
But before Jesus came, John was telling everyone in Israel to turn back to God and be baptized.

Amplified Bible
"Before His coming John [the Baptist] had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

American Standard Version
when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Bible in Basic English
For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now before the coming of Yeshua, Yochanan proclaimed to all the people of Isra'el an immersion in connection with turning to God from sin.

Darby Translation
John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Etheridge Translation
And he sent Juhanon to proclaim before his coming the baptism of repentance to the whole people of Israel.

Murdock Translation
And, before his advent, he sent John to proclaim the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

King James Version (1611)
When Iohn had first preached before his coming, the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.

New Living Translation
Before he came, John the Baptist preached that all the people of Israel needed to repent of their sins and turn to God and be baptized.

New Life Bible
Before Jesus came, John had preached to all the Jews that they should be baptized because they were sorry for their sins and turned from them.

New Revised Standard
before his coming John had already proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When Iohn had first preached before his coming the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
Before whose coming, he had sent John to preach the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
John, beforehand proclaiming, before the face of his coming in, an immersion of repentance, unto all the people of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.

Revised Standard Version
Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When Iohn had first preached before his commyng, the baptisme of repentaunce to all the people of Israel.

Good News Translation
Before Jesus began his work, John preached to all the people of Israel that they should turn from their sins and be baptized.

Christian Standard Bible®
Before his coming to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

King James Version
When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Lexham English Bible
Before his coming John had publicly proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Literal Translation
John going before to proclaim before the face of His entrance a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whan Ihon had first preached before his comynge the baptyme of repentaunce vnto Israel.

Mace New Testament (1729)
before his appearance, John had preach'd the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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

New King James Version
after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Before Jesus came, the great cowboy named John preached a message of radically changing your life to ride for God and being dunked in water. He told his message to all the cowboys in Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
after John had proclaimed before His coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁴And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down. ¹⁵After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: "Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak." ¹⁶Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak: "Men of Israel and you Gentiles who fear God, listen to me! ¹⁷The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land. ¹⁸He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness. ¹⁹And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance. ²⁰All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. ²¹Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin. ²²After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.' ²³From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 1:22, Acts 10:37, Acts 19:3, Acts 19:4, Matthew 3:1-11, Mark 1:2-8, Luke 1:76, Luke 3:2, Luke 3:3-20, John 1:6-8, John 1:15-18, John 3:25-36, John 5:33-36

Reciprocal: Malachi 3:1 - and he Matthew 3:11 - baptize Matthew 17:12 - and they Mark 1:4 - did Luke 3:16 - I indeed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When John had first preached before his coming,.... Or, "before the face of his entrance"; that is, on his public ministry; for John did not preach before the coming of Christ in the flesh, being born but half a year before him; but before he came forth and was manifest to Israel; before he entered upon his work and office, as a prophet and teacher of the people: and this points out the business of John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of Christ, and went before his face to prepare his way, who gave notice of his coming, and bore testimony to him; and whose testimony the apostle here produces, as being what the Jews could not well reject and deny, he being of so much probity and integrity, and so great a prophet, as he was accounted by all the people; and whom he prepared for the reception of the Messiah, by first preaching;

the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel: he not only administered the ordinance of baptism, but he preached the doctrine of it, opened the nature and design of it, and required repentance and fruits meet for it, in those who came to have it administered to them: for which reason it is called the baptism of repentance; and this he did publicly before all the people, when the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, came unto him; see Mark 1:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When John had first preached ... - After John had preached and prepared the way, Matthew 3:0:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:24. John - preached - the baptism of repentance — On the nature and effects of John's preaching, Matthew 3:1, &c., and Luke 3:10-15.