Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 1:31
And (q) I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
(q) I never knew him by face before.
And (q) I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
(q) I never knew him by face before.
Verse 31. _AND I KNEW HIM NOT_, c.] John did not know our Lord _personally_, and perhaps had never seen him, at the time he spoke the words in John 1:15. Nor is it any wonder that the Baptist should...
I KNEW HIM NOT - John was not personally acquainted with Jesus. Though they were remotely related to each other, yet it seems that they had had heretofore no personal acquaintance. John had lived chie...
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 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...
KNEW HIM NOT. Knew not whom God had chosen as the Christ. He knew Jesus personally, but did not know he was the Christ until God pointed him out. THEREFORE AM. COME BAPTIZING WITH (in) WATER. His w...
On the next day, John saw Jesus as he was coming towards him, and said: "See! The Lamb of God who is taking away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said to you: 'There is a man who is coming a...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
MADE MANIFEST. Greek. _phaneroo._ App-106. THEREFORE. on account of this Greek. _dia_ (App-104.John 1:1; John 1:1). The purpose should be well noted. Compare Romans 15:8....
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....
_And I knew him not_ Or, _I_ ALSO _knew Him not_; I, like you, did not at first know Him to be the Messiah. There is no contradiction between this and Matthew 3:14. (1) -I knew Him not" need not mean...
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...
THE TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO THE PEOPLE...
31. ΚἈΓῺ ΟΥ̓Κ ἬΔΕΙΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΌΝ. _I_ ALSO _knew Him not_; I, like you (John 5:26), did not at first know Him to be the Messiah. This does not contradict Matthew 3:14. (1) ‘I knew Him not’ need not mean ‘I...
VER 29. THE NEXT DAY JOHN SEES JESUS COMING TO HIM, AND SAID, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD. 30. THIS IS HE OF WHOM I SAID, AFTER ME COMES A MAN WHICH IS PREFERRED BEFO...
_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...
ΉΔΕΙΝ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ Plperf. относится к прошлому событию или к давнему аспекту состояния (VA, 287-90). ФАΝΕΡΩΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΦΑΝΕΡΌΩ...
AND I KNEW HIM NOT:— "St. Matthew relates, Matthew 3:14." says Dr. Clarke, "that when Christ came to be baptized, _John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?_...
THE BAPTISTS EVIDENCE FOR THE LAMB OF GOD _Text 1:29-34_ 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! 30 This is he...
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...
_AND I KNEW HIM NOT: BUT THAT HE SHOULD BE MADE MANIFEST TO ISRAEL, THEREFORE AM I COME BAPTIZING WITH WATER._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
I KNEW HIM NOT] But in Matthew 3:14 he seems to know Him, for he says, 'I have need to be baptized of thee.' The discrepancy, however, is only apparent. John is looking for the promised sign. Jesus pr...
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...
AND I KNEW HIM NOT. — Better, _and I also knew Him not;_ so again in John 1:33. The reference is to “whom ye know not” of John 1:26, and the assertion is not, therefore, inconsistent with the fact tha...
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 based on the sign at the baptism of Jesus_....
κἀγὼ οὐκ ἤδειν αὐτόν, _i.e._, I did not know Him to be the Messiah. Matthew 3:14 shows that John knew Jesus as a man. This meaning is also determined by the clause added: ἀλλʼ ἵνα … ἐν ὕδατι βαπτίζων....
_The witness of John and its result_....
WITNESS BORNE TO THE SON OF GOD John 1:29-34 John's description of Christ gave answer to Isaac's inquiry, Genesis 22:7. Let us not narrow the extent of the gospel. By the grace of God Jesus tasted de...
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...
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...
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...
VER. 31. “ _And neither did I know him; but that he might be manifested to Israel, I am come baptizing with water._ The word κἀγώ, _and neither I_, placed at the beginning and repeated, as it is in Jo...
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. (31) And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizi...
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...
31._And I knew him not. _That his testimony may not be suspected of having been given either from friendship or favor, he anticipates such a doubt, by affirming that he had no other knowledge of Chris...
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...
AND I KNEW HIM NOT,.... Ομμασιν, "by sight", as Nonnus paraphrases it; personally he had never seen him, nor had had any conversation and familiarity with him; for though they were related to each oth...
And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. Ver. 31. _And I knew him not_] By face not at all; lest the people should think that this...
John 1:31. "And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel," etc. This may seem strange that John did not know Jesus, seeing the families were so related; Elisabeth, his mother, bei...
_This is he_, &c. I now point out to you the very person of whom I formerly said, _After me cometh a man which is preferred before me_ Being incomparably greater and more excellent than I; _for he was...
I KNEW HIM NOT; see note to ver John 1:33. BUT THAT HE SHOULD BE MADE MANIFEST; as much as to say, I knew not yet who this person was, but only that he was about to be manifested to Israel....
John points to the Lamb of God:...
AND I KNEW HIM NOT; BUT THAT HE SHOULD BE MADE MANIFEST TO ISRAEL, THEREFORE AM I COME BAPTIZING WITH WATER....
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...
29-36 John saw Jesus coming to him, and pointed him out as the Lamb of God. The paschal lamb, in the shedding and sprinkling of its blood, the roasting and eating of its flesh, and all the other circ...
This verse is best expounded by 1 THESSALONIANS 1:33, where the same words are repeated, _I knew him not; _ and it is added, _but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon who...
John 1:31 I G2504 not G3756 know G1492 (G5715) Him G846 but G235 that G2443 revealed G5319 ...
‘And I did not know Him, but that he would be revealed to Israel. This was why I came baptising with water.' ‘But that He would be revealed to Israel'. John had begun to preach knowing that ‘the comi...
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...
John 1:31. AND I KNEW HIM NOT: BUT THAT BE MAY BE MADE MANIFEST TO ISRAEL, THEREFORE CAME I, BAPTIZING IN WATER. The explanation of the first clause of this verse will be best given when we come to Jo...
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...
AND I KNEW HIM NOT (καγω ουκ ηιδειν αυτον). Repeated in verse John 1:33. Second past perfect of οιδα as imperfect. He had predicted the Messiah and described him before he met him and baptized him....
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 1:1. _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...
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 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...
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 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 1:29. _The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of the world._ John lost no time. He had no sooner discovered the Saviour than...
John 1:29. _The next day_ This chapter is a record of the events that occurred on different days. Sometimes God does great things in a single day; one extraordinary day may have more in it than a hun...
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 DID NOT KNOW WHO HE WOULD BE. This means John did not know Jesus would be the Messiah, until the Holy Spirit clearly identified him. [Jesus and John were relatives (Luke 1:36).]...
_This is He._ THE REDEEMER’S IDENTIFICATION I. IN HIS WORK as the Lamb of God. 1. ‘The object offered in sacrifice. The Lamb of God applies to Christ (1) in His personal character. (2) In His sac...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:31 I MYSELF DID NOT KNOW HIM. John probably means he did not know that Jesus was the Messiah until he saw the sign mentioned in vv. John 1:32....
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” ...
_ 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...
_And I knew Him not_, &c. As though he said, "Think not, 0 ye Jews, that I affirm Jesus to be the Messiah for the sake of friendship, or relationship, as though I were His friend and companion; for I...
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...
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; Isaiah 40:3; John 1:33; John 1:7; Luke 1:17;...
I knew him not — Till he came to be baptized. How surprising is this; considering how nearly they were related, and how remarkable the conception and birth of both had been. But there was a peculiar p...
Observe here, 1. That though John the Baptist was. near kinsman of Christ, according to the flesh, yet the providence of God so ordered it, that for thirty years together they did not know one another...