John 3:29
The one having the Kallah (bride) is the Choson (Bridegroom), + 3:29 i.e., Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach but the Shoshvin (the Chosonʼs best man), the one having stood and hearing him with simcha, rejoices because of the kol (voice) of the Choson (Bridegroom). Therefore, this simcha of mine has been made sheleimah (complete).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
30It is necessary for that one + 3:30 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to increase, but for me to decrease.
Cross References
Judges 14:10So his av went down unto the isha; and Shimshon made there a mishteh; for so used the bocherim to do.
Song of Solomon 3:11Come out, O ye banot Tziyon, 1 and behold Sh'lomo HaMelech 1 with the atarah (crown) wherewith his em crowned him 1 in the Yom Chasunoh (day of his wedding), 1 and in the Yom Simchat Libo (day of the gladness of his heart). + 3:11 See Rv 19:6-10; Ep 5:22-33; Yn 3:29; 2C 11:1-2; Isa 54:5-6; Jer 2:2; Ezek 16:8-14,20-21,32,38; Hos 2:16,18-20 , and here see the Shulamite as a type of the Kehillah of Moshiach and Sh'lomo Ben Dovid a type of Moshiach Ben Dovid the Ro'eh HaTov, the Good Shepherd
Song of Solomon 5:1I am come into my gan (garden), my sister, my kallah; 1 I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; 1 I have eaten my honeycomb with my devash (honey); 1 I have drunk my yayin with my cholov (milk). 1 Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, dodim. 1
Isaiah 62:4Of thee it shalt no more be said, Azuvah (Forsaken); 1 neither of thy land shall it any more be said, Shemameh (Desolate); 1 but thou shalt be called Cheftzi-Vah, (My Delight is in her) 1 and thy land Beulah (Married): 1 for Hashem delighteth in thee, 1 and thy land shall be married. 1
Jeremiah 2:2Go and cry, shouting in the ears of Yerushalayim, saying, Thus saith Hashem; 1 I remember thee, the chesed of thy ne'urim, 1 the ahavas of thy days as a kallah, 1 when thou wentest after Me in midbar, 1 in an eretz that was not sown. 1
Hosea 2:19For I will take away the shemot (names) of Ba'alim out of her mouth, and they shall be remembered by their names no more.
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 →