John 1:26
John said to them, “I baptise people with water. But I am telling you, there is somebody coming after me that you don’t know yet. He is the most important one. I am not good enough to untie his shoes.”
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Mark 1:8You see, I baptised you just with water, but this new man will put the Holy Spirit in you. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.”
John 1:10The one called the Word came to the world. You know, God used that one called the Word to make everything in the world, but people in the world didn’t know who he was.
John 16:3They will do those bad things, because they never knew me, or my father.
John 17:25Father, you always do what is right. But the people that belong to this world don’t know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me to the world.
Acts 11:16And I remembered that our leader Jesus said, ‘John baptised people with water, but God will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.’
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 →