Jesus took John’s baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins and filled it with new and eschatological significance

The events in the book of Acts make it clear that baptism was understood as an essential part of conversion.

From the NT epistles passages on baptism we see that all the blessings of salvation are associated with baptism by faith.

Psalm 51:1-9 gives us the ingredients for repentance and shows us that repentance is the way to life for both ruined and redeemed sinners.