It seems to be a popular opinion today that baptism was common among the Jews at the time John was baptizing. However, the question put to John disputes that.
“...if baptism, in the modern sense, were in use among the Jews in ancient times, why did the Pharisees ask John Baptist, Why dost thou baptize, if thou art not Christ, nor Elias, nor that prophet? John i. 25. Do they not plainly intimate that baptism was not in use before, and that it was a received opinion among them, that there should be no baptism, till either Christ, or Elias, or that prophet came.”
A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, C. M. Du Veil, London: J. Haddon, 1851, p. 63
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