JOHN, Who did he baptize, C. H. Cayce “When John was baptizing in the river of Jordan, was he baptizing sinners?” He was not baptizing unregenerate sinners. He came to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. They were already prepared in heart before he baptized them. When the Pharisees and Sadducees came and demanded baptism at his hands he refused them. He told them to bring forth fruits meet for repentance — that is, they must bring fruits of repentance; they must give some evidence of repentance before he would baptize them.
Those he baptized confessed their sins. They realized that they were poor, sinful creatures. That person whose heart is untouched by the Spirit of God, or the sweet influence of the love of God, does not realize the exceeding sinfulness of sin; hence he does not confess his sins, is not sorry for his sins, thinks he is as good as anybody and better than most people, and is not a subject fit for baptism, and John baptized no such characters.