John 3:28
You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘ I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’
Family 35 New Testament
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
27John answered and said: “A person can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from Heaven.
Cross References
Matthew 3:3For this is he who was referred to by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “A voice crying-out, ‘Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.’”
Mark 1:2As it is written in the prophets —“Take note, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.”
Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, because you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
John 1:20He confessed, he did not deny but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
John 1:25So they asked him saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor ‘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 →