John 1:26

Juchanon answered and said to them, I baptize you with waters; but he standeth among you whom you know not:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

25And they demanded and said to him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Meshicha, nor Elia, nor the Prophet?

27he it is who cometh after me, and he was before me; he, the latchets of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.

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Cross References

Mark 1:8I have baptized you with waters; but he shall baptize you with the Spirit of Holiness.

John 1:10In the world was he, and the world by his hand had been made, and the world knew him not.

John 16:3And these will they do, because they have not known either my Father or me.

John 17:25My righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Acts 11:16And I remembered the word of our Lord, who said, Juhanon baptized you with waters, but you shall be baptized with the Spirit of Holiness.

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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