John 1:26

John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands someone you do not know.

Text-Critical English NT

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

25Then they asked him, “Why then do yoʋ baptize if yoʋ are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

27He is the one who comes after me, who ranks ahead of me, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”

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Cross References

Mark 1:8I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, but the world did not know him.

John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

John 17:25Righteous Father, though the world does not know yoʋ, I know yoʋ, and these men know that yoʋ have sent me.

Acts 11:16Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized 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 →

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