15John 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.
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I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist’s testimony concerning Christ, John 1:15. He had said (John 1:8) that he came for a witness ; now here he tells us that he did accordingly bear witness . Here, Observe, 1. How he expressed his testimony: He cried , according to the prediction that he should be the voice of one crying . The Old-Testament prophets cried aloud, t…
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