John 1:19
When the religious authorities in Jerusalem sent some Priests and Levites to ask John – “Who are you?”,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
18No one has ever yet seen God; God the only Son, who is ever with the Father – he has revealed him.
20he told them clearly and simply, “I am not the Christ.”
Cross References
Luke 3:15Then, while the people were in suspense, and were all debating with themselves whether John could be the Christ,
John 5:10Now it was the Sabbath. So the religious authorities said to the man who had been cured, “This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat.”
John 6:41The people began murmuring against Jesus for saying – ‘I am the bread which came down from heaven.’
John 10:24when the people gathered around him, and said, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so frankly.”
Acts 19:4“John’s baptism was a baptism on repentance,” rejoined Paul, “and John told the people (speaking of the ‘one coming’ after him) that they should believe in him – that is in 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 →