Translation
Then PAUL said, “JOHN baptized a baptism of repentance telling the people that they should believe into
Go to footnote numberthe [one] coming after him, that is into JESUS.”
Paraphrase
Then LITTLE said to them, “THE LORD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS used the accepted ritual of transfer as a confirmation of their repentance while telling them that, when the proper time came, they should move their trust for salvation into the One that would come after him, that is into THE LORD IS SAVIOR.”
Footnotes
1: "into"
In the New Testament, faith in Jesus was always communicated with the preposition “into” rather than “in”. While the Greek preposition “in” refers to something fixed within a sphere or realm, “into” refers to the movement from one realm to another, we might say “moving across a threshold.”