Acts 13:24. When John had first preached before his coming. The literal translation of the Greek gives a clearer meaning: ‘John having preached before His coming.' Paul mentions this preaching and testimony of the Baptist to Jesus as a thing well known. A vast number of the Jews seem to have acknowledged John's authority as a prophet. His mission created a great stir in the Holy Land; and later we read of his disciples at Ephesus, some twenty-five years after the death of the Baptist (Acts 19:3).

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Old Testament