30The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
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Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. …
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; …
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. …
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, …
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-33)We have here Christ examined by the great Sanhedrim concerning his authority; for they claimed a power to call prophets to an account concerning their mission. They came to him when he was walking in the temple , not for his diversion, but teaching the people, first one company and then another. The Peripatetic philosophers were so called from the custom they had of walking when they taught. The c…
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