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John 1:27
He it is, who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
He it is, who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Verse 27. _IS PREFERRED BEFORE ME_] Ὁς εμπροσθεν μου γεγονεν, _Who_ _was before me_. This clause is wanting in BC*L, four others, the _Coptic, AEthiopic, Slavonic_, and two copies of the _Itala_, an...
WHOSE SHOE’S LATCHET - See the notes at Matthew 3:11. The “latchet” of sandals was the string or thong by which they were fastened to the feet. To unloose them was the office of a servant, and John me...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTIST'S WITNESS ABOUT HIMSELF. Instead of recounting the work and mission of the Baptist, as the other gospels, the writer selects incidents which show him as the Witness. These incidents are ce...
THE BAPTISTS WITNESS TO HIMSELF. The baptism of Jesus has apparently taken place. John points to Him as the greater one of whom he had spoken. His own work of baptism, which has not been described but...
WHOSE SHOE'S LATCHET. AM NOT WORTHY TO UNLOOSE. The latchet was the thong by which the sandal was bound on the foot. To loose or fasten it was the work of. menial. The dignity of Christ was so exalte...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
This is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him: "Who are you?" He quite definitely affirmed and stated: "I am not the Messiah." So they asked him:...
WHOSE SHOE'S LATCHET. the thong of whose sandal. LATCHET. a little lace, or thong. O. Fr, _lacet,_. lace; dim. of _lags,_ from Latin. _laqueus._...
_He it is_ These words and -is preferred before me" are wanting in authority: the sentence should run, HE THAT COMETH AFTER ME, WHOSE SHOE'S LATCHET, &c., IS STANDING IN THE MIDST OF YOU, AND YE KNOW...
The Testimony of the Baptist 19 28. His Testimony to the Deputation from Jerusalem This section describes a crisis in the Baptist's ministry. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin....
THE TESTIMONY TO THE DEPUTATION FROM JERUSALEM 19–28. This section describes a crisis in the ministry of the Baptist. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin. It was a time of exciteme...
19–37. _The Testimony of the Baptist_, (α) to the deputation from Jerusalem, (β) to the people, (γ) to Andrew and John, John 1:31-51. _The Testimony of the Disciples:_ John 2:1-11 _The Testimony of th...
27. αὐτός ἐστιν is an addition to fill out the construction, and ὁς ἐμπ. μ. γ. has been inserted (Acts 3) from John 1:15; John 1:30 : אBC1L omit both. 27. Ὁ ὈΠΊΣΩ ΜΟΥ ἘΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ. This is the subject of...
VER 24. AND THEY WHICH WERE SENT WERE OF THE PHARISEES. 25. AND THEY ASKED HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, WHY BAPTIZE YOU THEN, IF YOU BE NOT THAT CHRIST, NOR ELIAS, NEITHER THAT PROPHET? 26. JOHN ANSWERED THE...
_THE ETERNAL WORD WAS LIFTED UP BY JOHN -- (JOHN 1:19-34)_ John was a witness who lifted up God's Eternal Word. (John 1:19-28) John the Baptist was "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make str...
ΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти, приходить, ΊΝ (G2443) здесь используется с _adj._ ΆΞΙΟΣ (G514) достойный; с _conj._, где обычно используется _inf._ (RWP; Mark 1:7). ΑΎΤ...
JOHN ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, &C.— _"I baptize,_ to shew you the nature and necessity of repentance; but it is _with water_ only, which cannot cleanse you from your sins, as the washing predicted by Zec...
JOHN'S ANSWER _Text 1:23-28_ 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. 24 And they had been sent from the Pharisee...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:19-34 Following our usual custom, we begin by submitting an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we have:— 1. The Jews’ inquiry of John, a...
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. HE IT IS, WHO COMING AFTER ME, IS PREFERRED BEFORE ME - see the note at . WHOSE SHOE'S LATC...
Government and education are still the panaceas proposed by the majority of priest-craft. But John wisely withdraws himself from their notice, and as the Voice, heralds the coming of the Messiah Himse...
PUBLIC TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO JESUS IN REPLY TO A DEPUTATION FROM THE SANHEDRIN. The independence and fulness of the account of the Baptist in this Gospel renders it highly probable that the evan...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
HE IT IS... IS PREFERRED BEFORE ME. — Insertions made to harmonise the verse with John 1:15; John 1:30. Omitting them we have, “He who cometh after me” as the subject of the verb “standeth,” and the w...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
The witness of John to the deputation from Jerusalem, entitled αὕτη ἐστὶν … Λευείτας. The witness or testimony of John is placed first, not only because it was that which influenced the evangelist him...
_The witness of John and its result_....
THE VOICE OF PROMISE John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was _made_ to _became,_ John 1:14. Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was a proces...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
FIRST SECTION: 1:19-37. THE TESTIMONIES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. These testimonies are three in number and were given on three successive days (see John 1:29; John 1:35, “ _the next day_).” These three da...
“ _John answered them saying, Yea, I baptize with water;in the midst of you there standeth one whom you know not;_ 27. _He who comes after me but who was before me_ _the latchet of whose sandal I am n...
I. FIRST TESTIMONY: JOHN 1:19-28. In unfolding in the Prologue the contents of faith, the apostle had adduced two testimonies of John the Baptist (John 1:6-8 and John 1:15); the second contains, as _B...
II. SECOND TESTIMONY: VV. 29-34. How can we comprehend the fact that the deputies of the Sanhedrim left John without asking him who the person was of whom he intended to speak? Either they did not car...
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. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
27._Who coming after me_. Here he says two things; first, that Christ was behind him in the order of time; but, secondly, that he was far before him in rank and dignity, because the rather preferred h...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
HE IT IS WHO COMING AFTER ME,.... Both into the world, and into the ministry of the word; for John was before Christ, in both these respects, though greatly behind him in others, and therefore he adds...
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. Ver. 27. _I am not worthy_] Yet Christ held him worthy to lay his hand upon his head in baptism....
_They which were sent were of the Pharisees_ Who were peculiarly tenacious of old customs, and jealous of any innovations, (except those brought in by their own scribes,) unless the innovator had unqu...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
19-28 John disowns himself to be the Christ, who was now expected and waited for. He came in the spirit and power of Elias, but he was not the person of Elias. John was not that Prophet whom Moses sa...
John the Baptist had before told them, _He that cometh after me is preferred before me,_ SEE POOLE ON "1 THESSALONIANS 1:15". He now repeateth those words; and it is observable, that the three other e...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V while he, though speaking more perspicuously as no longer prophesying, but pointing out as now present, Him, who was proclaimed symbolically from the beginning,...
John 1:27 is G2076 (G5748) He G846 who G3739 coming G2064 (G5740) after G3694 me G3450 preferred...
‘John answered them, saying, “I baptise with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, even He who comes after me, the clasp of whose sandal I am unworthy to unloose”.' His reply was that he...
JOHN THE BAPTISER'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS AND THE CALLING OF DISCIPLES (JOHN 1:19). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed in the o...
We enter here upon the second great division of the Gospel, extending from John 1:19 to John 2:11, and containing the presentation of Jesus, as He takes His place in the field of human history and, al...
John 1:26-27. JOHN ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, I BAPTIZE IN WATER. The meaning of the Baptist's answer has been greatly obscured by the insertion of ‘but' after these words. It has thus been supposed that...
COMING AFTER ME (οπισω μου ερχομενος). No article (ο) in Aleph B. John as the forerunner of the Messiah has preceded him in time, but not in rank as he instantly adds.THE LATCHET OF WHOSE SHOE I AM...
John 1:19 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally preceded...
John 1:19. _And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ._ «I...
John 1:19. And this in the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they...
John 1:15. _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 was not before John in the order of hum...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
I BAPTIZE WITH WATER. John's baptism was water baptism. See notes on Matthew 3:11....
_They which were sent were of the Pharisees_ THE QUESTION OF THE PHARISEES 1. It is an evidence of a sick and corrupt Church when corrupt men are entrusted with most grave and weighty employments i...
_The record of John_ _ I._ AN INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE OF TRUE HUMILITY. 1. John was an eminent saint of God (Matthew 11:11; John 5:35),yet we see him lowly and self-abased. (1) He refuses the honour w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:19 Signs of the Messiah, with Teaching about Life in Him. The first half of John’s Gospel features Jesus’ demonstration of his messianic identity through several selected “signs” ...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
_He it is who, coming after me_, &c. After me Christ shall come to baptize you, that by His baptism He may perfect mine, and may wash and justify them that are penitent. As S. Cyril paraphrases, "I in...
PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM (John 1:19) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is not the Chri...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
Acts 19:4; John 1:15; John 1:30; Luke 3:16; Mark 1:7;...