JOEL - The Bible of course says nothing about him even being baptized. However our Doctrine and Covenants scriptures say:
"Which gospel is the gospel of repentance and of
baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law of
carnal commandments, which the Lord in his wrath
caused to continue with the house of Aaron among the
children of Israel until John, whom God raised up,
being filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s
womb.
For he was baptized while he was yet in his
childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the
time he was eight days old unto this power, to
overthrow the kingdom of the Jews, and to make
straight the way of the Lord before the face of his
people, to prepare them for the coming of the Lord,
in whose hand is given all power." (D&C 84:27-28)
So we know that he was baptized as a child and
received the Holy Ghost in the womb as also recorded
in Luke 1:15. We also know that as he grew his
parents must have carefully reared him in gospel
principles(Luke 1:80), for he came forth from the
desert preaching repentance (Matt. 3:1-2).
John's father, Zacharias, was a priest and literal
descendant of Aaron (Luke 1:5), and therefore a legal
heir to the Aaronic priesthood; so we might speculate
that his father was the one who baptized him as a
child.
Even though John was also a literal descendant
of Aaron and thus holder of the same priesthood, apparently a greater
authority was required for his special mission (Luke 1: 68-79), which he received,
not from his father, but from an angel of God as
described in the scripture above. (D&C 84: 28)
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