John 1:19
This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
18No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.
20He avowed--he did not conceal the truth, but avowed, "I am not the Christ."
Cross References
Luke 3:15And while the people were in suspense and all were debating in their minds whether John might possibly be the Anointed One,
John 5:10That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."
John 6:41Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.
John 10:24when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly."
Acts 19:4"John," he said, "administered a baptism of repentance, bidding the people believe on One who was to come after him; namely, on 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 →