John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent forth priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they might ask him, Who are thou?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
20And he confessed, and did not deny, and confessed, I am not the Christ.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:8Take heed in the disease of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you. As I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
Luke 3:15And as the people were expectant, and all pondering in their hearts about John, if perhaps he was the Christ,
John 5:10The Jews therefore said to the man who was cured, It is Sabbath. It is not permitted for thee to take up the bed.
John 6:41The Jews therefore murmured about him because he said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven.
John 10:24The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, When do thou lift up our soul? If thou are the Christ, tell us plainly.
Acts 19:4And Paul said, John indeed immersed an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus, the Christ.
Matthew Henry on John 1:16-19
John's Testimony to Christ. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist's testimony… Read the whole commentary →