John 1:26

John answered them, saying: I immerse in water; but there stands one among you whom you know not.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

In Context

25and they asked him, and said to him: Why, then, do you immerse, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?

27He it is, who, though he comes after me, is now before me; the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.

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Cross References

Mark 1:8I immerse you in water; but he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.

John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

John 16:3And these things they will do, because they know neither the Father nor me.

John 17:25Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Acts 11:16Then I remembered the word of the Lord, as he said, John immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit.

Matthew Henry on John 1:20-29

John's Testimony to Christ; John Examined by the Priests. 19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. 22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 23 He said, I am the voice of one… Read the whole commentary →

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