John 3:28
You yourselves offer testimony for me that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but that I have been sent before him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
In Context
Cross References
Malachi 3:1Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts.
Matthew 3:3For this is the one who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, saying: “A voice crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight his paths.”
Mark 1:2As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.
Luke 1:76And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the face of the Lord: to prepare his ways,
John 1:20And he confessed it and did not deny it; and what he confessed was: “I am not the Christ.”
John 1:25And they questioned him and said to him, “Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the Prophet?”
Matthew Henry on John 3:23-36
John's Testimony to Christ. 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest… Read the whole commentary →