John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
Parallel translations
- KJV John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
- BSB “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
- ESV John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
- NKJV John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know.
- NASB John answered them, saying, “I baptize in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.
- NLT John told them, “I baptize with water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not recognize.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Acts 1:5For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
- Luke 3:16John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
- John 1:10–11He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
- Mark 1:8I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
- Matt 3:11I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 11:16I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’
- John 8:19They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
- 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
- John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
- John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- Mal 3:1–2“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
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Henry on the prologue — rich on the Word and the incarnation.
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- ★ Start hereCommentaryThe Gospel According to John (Pillar NT Commentary)D. A. Carson · ~720 pp · Paid · reformed
The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.
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Christ at the center
John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.
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