Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 13:24

24 When John had first preached before his coming , the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Iohn the Baptist did not speak of Christs coming, as the other Apostles had done, as of a thing a great way off, or at a distance of time; but he spake of it as of a present matter, before his and their faces, and in their view; Behold the lamb of God, Iohn 1 29.36.

So it is called, Mat. 3.2, 8. Mark 1.4. Luke 3.3. Repentance being a due qualification for such as hope to receive the mercies of God in Christ, unto life Eternal.

Marginal references: Mat. 3.1.