30This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
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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.
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-36)We have in these verses an account of John’s testimony concerning Jesus Christ, which he witnessed to his own disciples that followed him. As soon as ever Christ was baptized he was immediately hurried into the wilderness, to be tempted ; and there he was forty days. During his absence John had continued to bear testimony to him, and to tell the people of him; but now at last he sees Jesus coming…
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