John 1:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; ”

• John 1:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I baptize - He did not deny it; nor did he condescend to state his authority. That he had given. He “admitted” that he had introduced an important “change” in the rites of religion, and he goes o...

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• John 1:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one (m) among you, whom ye know not; (m) Whom all the world sees, and sees even amongst you.

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• John 1:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Baptist's Witness about Himself. Instead of recounting the work and mission of the Baptist, as the other gospels, the writer selects incidents which show him as the Witness. These incidents are...

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• John 1:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  baptize with . App-115. know. Greek. oida. App-132. A characteristic word of this Gospel . See p. 1511.

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• John 1:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. I baptize with water. This ought to have been abundantly sufficient for the correction of their mistake, but a reproof otherwise clear is of no advantage to the deaf; for, when he sends t...

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• John 1:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; I baptize with water - See on Mark 1:8 (note). I use the common form, though I direct the bapti...

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• John 1:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  John answered them, saying, &c.— "I baptize, to shew you the nature and necessity of repentance; but it is with water only, which cannot cleanse you from your sins, as the washing predicted...

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• John 1:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; John answered them, saying, I baptize with water - with water only; the higher, internal,...

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• John 1:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Divinity and Incarnation of the Word. Witness of John. The First Disciples 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This...

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• John 1:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I baptize with water. — The passage of Ezekiel is probably present to the mind, with its contrast between water and spirit.

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• John 1:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  John 1:15-34 Chapter 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might belie...

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• John 1:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Voice of Promise John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was made to became, John 1:14 . Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was...

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• John 1:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bring...

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• John 1:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• John 1:26 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE UNKNOWN CHRIST ‘There standeth One among you, Whom ye know not.… The same is He that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.’ John 1:26 ; John 1:33 Is the charge still true. Is Christ still unkn...

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• John 1:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  John answered them, saying, I baptize with water ,.... Or in water, so the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions render it. The sense of the answer is, that he indeed baptized persons in wate...

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• John 1:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; Ver. 26. I baptize with water ] The Baptist here meaneth the same that St Paul doth, 1 Corin...

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• John 1:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They which were sent were of the Pharisees Who were peculiarly tenacious of old customs, and jealous of any innovations, (except those brought in by their own scribes,) unless the innovator had unq...

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• John 1:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13 , speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person...

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• John 1:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  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...

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• John 1:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; This was no strict answer to their question, which was not, how, but why he baptized? But proper replies are often called answers in Scripture, though not apposite to the question. I baptiz...

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• John 1:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  John the Baptiser's Testimony to Jesus and the Calling of Disciples ( John 1:19-51 ). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed...

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• John 1:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM ( John 1:19-51 ) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is...

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• John 1:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 1:19-39 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally pr...

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• John 1:26 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 1:1 . In the beginning was the Word, Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having ne...

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• John 1:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 1:1 . In the beginning was the Word. Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all...

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• John 1:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The record of John I. AN INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE OF TRUE HUMILITY. 1. John was an eminent saint of God ( Matthew 11:11 ; John 5:35 ),yet we see him lowly and self-abased. (1) He refuses t...

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• John 1:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The si...

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• John 1:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The question concerning John's baptism:

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• John 1:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:1 ; Acts 1:5 ; Acts 11:16 ; John 1:10 ; John 1:11 ; John 16:3 ; John 17:25 ; John 17:3 ; John 8:19 ; Luke 3:16 ; Malachi 3:1 ; Malachi 3:2 ; Mark 1:8 ; Matthew 3:11

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• John 1:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  John answered, I baptize — To prepare for the Messiah; and indeed to show that Jews, as well as Gentiles, must be proselytes to Christ, and that these as well as those stand in need of being washed...

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