John 1:26

John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know.

English Majority Text (NT)

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, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

27He is the One who comes after me, who ranks before me, of whom I am not worthy that I should loose the strap of His sandal.”

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Cross References

Mark 1:8I baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.” 1 The Baptism of Jesus

John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

John 16:3And these things they will do to you because they did not know the Father nor Me.

John 17:25O righteous Father! Indeed the world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.

Acts 11:16And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with 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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