Ernest T. Bass
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John's baptism was not a baptism into the death of Christ and John's baptism was replaced by the baptism of the great commission per Mk 16:15-16; Matt 28:19,20 which is a baptism into the death of Christ. Therefore John's baptism is not the baptism the NT requires of us today, that being, a baptism into the death of Christ.@Ernest T. Bass , question... read Romans 6:4-6:
4 When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we, too, should live a new kind of life. 5 If we’ve become united with him in a death like his, certainly we will also be united with him when we come back to life as he did. 6 We know that the person we used to be was crucified with him to put an end to sin in our bodies. Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin.
So is everyone John Baptized had no effect in your view.
Though John's baptism is not the baptism the NT gospel requires into the death of Christ, John's baptism was "for the remission of sins" Mk 1:4. So those baptized with John's baptism would have had all their sins remitted when Christ died on the cross shedding His blood (Heb 9:22). But the NT requires a belief in the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom 10:9) and a baptism into the death of Christ (Rom 6) neither of which were possible for those cases cited in the OP.