There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Ver. 6. There was a man sent from God] As he ran not, till sent,Jeremiah 23:32. St Paul holds it not only for incredible, but for impossible, that men should preach that are not sent, Romans 10:15. So he declined not his ambassage, as did Jonah, απαιτουμενος την αποστολην; who was therefore met with by another messenger of God, and sent into the whale's belly to make his sermon for Nineveh; and in his prayer before, to acknowledge out of sad experience that they that hunt "after lying vanities" (as he had done) "forsake their own mercies,"John 2:8 .