Mark 1:7

and he proclaimed – ‘After me is coming someone more powerful than I am, and I am not fit even to stoop down and unfasten his sandals.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

In Context

6John wore clothes made of camels’ hair, with a leather strap round his waist, and lived on locusts and wild honey;

8I have baptised you with water, but he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.’

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Cross References

Matthew 3:14But John tried to prevent him. ‘I need to be baptised by you,’ he said, ‘so why have you come to me?’

Luke 7:6So Jesus went with them. But, when he was no great distance from the house, the centurion sent some friends with the message – ‘Do not trouble yourself, Sir; for I am unworthy to receive you under my roof.

John 3:28You are yourselves witnesses that I said “I am not the Christ,” but “I have been sent before him as a messenger.”

Matthew Henry on Mark 1:2-9

Mark We have heard the evidence given in by the first witness to the doctrine and miracles of our Lord Jesus; and now here is another witness produced, who calls for our attention. The second living creature saith, Come, and see, Rev. vi. 3 . Now let us enquire a little, I. Concerning this witness. His name is Mark. Marcus was a Roman name, and a very common one, and yet we have no reason to think, but that he was by birth a Jew; but as Saul, when he went among the nations, took the Roman name of Paul, so he of… Read the whole commentary →

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