John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites out of Jerusalem, that they might question him, “Who are you?”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
20And he confessed and did not deny, and confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:8Take heed in the plague of leprosy, to watch greatly, and to do according to all that the priests, the Levites, teach you; you observe to do as I have commanded them;
Luke 3:15And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;
John 5:10the Jews then said to him that has been healed, “It is a Sabbath; it is not lawful to you to take up the pallet.”
John 6:41The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at Him, because He said, “I AM the bread that came down out of Heaven”;
John 10:24the Jews, therefore, came around Him and said to Him, “Until when do You hold our soul in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us freely.”
Acts 19:4And Paul said, “John, indeed, immersed with an immersion of conversion, saying to the people that they should believe in Him who is coming after him—that is, in the Christ—Jesus”;
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 →