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You yourselves testify about me, that I said, `I am not the Christ,` but, `I have been sent before him.`
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A Model of Humility
Commentators emphasize that John consistently and publicly declared his subordinate role. He reminds his jealous disciples, "You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ." Scholars like Calvin note that John reserved no honor for himself, modeling a powerful humility that finds its place in serving Jesus, the true Head of the Church.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Bear me witness. You remember that at first I told you I was not the Messiah. As he had been witness to Jesus—since he came for n…
I said (ειπον). As in 1:20,23. He had always put Jesus ahead of him as the Messiah (1:15).
Before him (εμπ…
19th Century
Anglican
You yourselves bear me witness.—They remembered (John 3:26) that John had borne witness to Jesus. Did they no…
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Baptist
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea, and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptiz…
John showed no jealousy whatever; on the contrary, he reaffirmed his subordinate position (cf. 1:29–31). He would not claim for himself final autho…
16th Century
Protestant
You are witnesses to me. John earnestly reasons with his disciples that they did not believe his statements. He had often warned them that…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You yourselves bear me witness In what they now said, and referred to, in describing Christ, as he to whom John bore…
John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned to him, but Jesus came for a more important work. He also knew that Jesus would increase …
13th Century
Catholic
Here we have John’s answer to the question his disciples presented to him. Their question contained two points: a complaint about the off…