John 1:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

John 1:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 19:4
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
John 1:32-34
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. …
John 1:36
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
John 5:33-35
Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. …
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-14)

The evangelist designs to bring in John Baptist bearing an honourable testimony to Jesus Christ, Now in these verses, before he does this, I. He gives us some account of the witness he is about to produce. His name was John, which signifies gracious; his conversation was austere, but he was not the less gracious. Now, 1. We are here told concerning him, in general, that he was a man sent of God. T…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-9. The Evangelist here approaches his grand thesis, so paving his way for the full statement of it in Joh 1:14, that we may be able to bear the bright light of it, and take in its length and breadth and depth and height.