Repentance appears prominently in the Scriptures. See the description of repentance in the Hebrew Bible above for repentance in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, the first command that Jesus gave was to repent, thus repeating the message of John the Baptist. Jesus sent out disciples who "proclaimed that people should repent". In his Pentecost sermon, Peter the Apostle called on people to repent, an appeal he repeated in his sermon at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple: "Repent therefore, and return again to God, that your sins may be blotted out". Paul the Apostle likewise testified "both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God" and said that "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent".