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When and Where Were The Original Twelve Apostles Baptized?

An angel of the Lord appeared unto Zacharias and informed him that his wife, Elisabeth, would bring forth a son and that his name would be called John, that he would be filled with the Holy Ghost, and that many of the children of Israel shall turn to the Lord, and he shall go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord (Luke 1:11-17).

When John started on his mission, preparing the way for the Lord, “…he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins" (Luke 3:3). Every man that heard and believed the preaching of John, repented, and was baptized by him, receiving remission of sins, and in this way was made ready, preparing for the Lord. But those who did not believe the preaching of John, of course, were not baptized because they rejected the counsel of God against themselves (Luke 7:30).

Belief is, and always must precede baptism, without belief one cannot be scripturally baptized (Mark 16:16; John 3:18). When Christ came and selected His apostles, they were from among John's disciples. All disciples of John believed and had been baptized by John in the Jordan River. To the person that would suppose that the Savior would select His apostles from among men that rejected the baptism of John, when John's mission was to make ready a people prepared for the Lord, is preposterous, especially so when those that rejected John's baptism rejected the counsel of God.

Jesus would not have selected a man as an apostle who had rejected the heavenly Father. Jesus, later said of His apostles, "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled" (John 17:12).

Here we see that it was God Himself who gave the apostles to Christ. Therefore, as it was God who sent John before Christ to prepare His way, to make His paths straight, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord, certainly He would not have given Him apostles from among those that refused John's baptism.

Why were not the apostles "re-baptized" as were some disciples found by Paul at Ephesus, who had been baptized in John's baptism but was then baptized in the name of Christ? John's baptism was effective up to the establishment of the church on the day of Pentecost. After that, the commandment was to be baptized "...into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…”  (Matt. 28:18-20). After the establishment of the church no one was to be baptized with John's baptism, but only in the name of Jesus (Acts 2:38).