John 1:19
This was the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are yoʋ?”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
20He did not refuse to answer, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”
Cross References
Luke 3:15Now as the people were waiting in expectation and were all questioning in their hearts whether John might be the Christ,
John 5:10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for yoʋ to pick up yoʋr mat.”
John 6:41Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 10:24So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long are yoʋ going to keep us in suspense? If yoʋ are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Acts 19:4Then Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Christ 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 →