John 1:26

+ 1:26 (+32-34) MP: God will set Messiah apart amidst people who do not recognize or understand (in darkness). (Is 60:2) John [Yah is gracious] answered them, “I mikvah ·baptise· in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

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In The King James Version

John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

In Context

25They asked him, “Why then do you mikvah ·baptise·, if you are not the Messiah [Anointed one], nor Elijah [My God Yah], nor the prophet (promised Messiah)?”

27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

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Cross References

Mark 1:8I immersed you in water, but he will mikvah ·baptise· you in Ruach haKodesh [Spirit, Breath of the Holiness].”

John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known haAbba ·the Father·, nor me.

John 17:25Righteous Abba Father, the world has not known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Matthew Henry on John 1:20-29

John's Testimony to Christ; John Examined by the Priests. 19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. 22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 23 He said, I am the voice of one… Read the whole commentary →

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