26And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
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The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
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.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-36)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s removal into the land of Judea (John 3:22), and there he tarried with his disciples. Observe, 1. Our Lord Jesus, after he entered upon his public work, travelled much, and removed often, as the patriarchs in their sojournings. As it was a good part of his humiliation that he had no certain dwelling-place, but was, as Paul, in journeyings often , so it was an in…
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