Acts 13:24

Mace New Testament

before his appearance, John had preach'd the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
Before He came to public attention, John had previously 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.

King James Version (1611)
When Iohn had first preached before his coming, the baptisme 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Young's Literal Translation
John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation 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.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a 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.

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.

English Standard Version
Before his coming, John had 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.

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]

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.

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.

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

New Revised Standard
before his coming John had already proclaimed a 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.

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.

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

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.

New American Standard Bible
after John had proclaimed, before His coming, a baptism of repentance 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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places, ¹⁵ and after the lesson out of the law and the prophets was finish'd, the heads of the synagogue sent this message to them; Men and brethren, if you have any instruction to offer to the people, deliver it. ¹⁶ thereupon Paul stood up, and having made sign with his hand for their attention, he said, men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. ¹⁷ the God of Israel made choice of our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourn'd in Egypt, from whence he conducted them by the terror of his arm. ¹⁸ for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness. ¹⁹ after that he distributed to them by lot the territorys of seven nations, which he destroyed in Canaan. ²⁰ after these transactions, which lasted about four hundred and fifty years, he gave them judges to the time of the prophet Samuel: ²¹ when having demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin: the government of both having lasted forty years, ²² God removed Saul, and rais'd up David to be their king, to whom he gave this testimonial, " I have found David the son of Jesse: he is a man most acceptable to me, and he will execute all my orders." ²³ it is of his posterity that God, pursuant to his promise, has rais'd up Jesus to be the saviour of Israel.

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.