And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
Ver. 41. John did no miracle] Lest he should be mistaken for the Messiah. But how got he then so much credit? By his mortified conversation especially. "Holy and reverend is God's name," saith the Psalmist; therefore reverend, because holy. Holiness hath honour in the consciences of the very worst.
But all things that John spake] The word works not sometimes, till many years after it hath been preached, as here; and as they say of the elephant, that she goes with young thirteen years after she hath conceived.