John 1:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. Is preferred before me - Ὁς εμπροσθεν μου γεγονεν, Who was before me. This clause is wanting in BC*L, four others, the Coptic, Ethiopic, Slavonic, and two copies of the Itala, and in some of the primitive fathers. Griesbach has left it out of the text. It is likely that it was omitted by the above, because it was found in John 1:15 and John 1:30. At the end of this verse, EG, and ten others, with some copies of the Slavonic, add, He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

John 1:27

27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.