John 1:19
This is John's testimony, when the Jewish leaders sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
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20He confessed, and did not deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Messiah."
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:8Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Luke 3:15As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Messiah,
John 5:10So the Jewish leaders said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
John 6:41The Jewish people therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
John 10:24The Jewish leaders therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."
Acts 19:4Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in 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 →