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Selected Verse: John 1:20 - King James

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Joh 1:20 King James And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
confessed, &c.--that is, While many were ready to hail him as the Christ, he neither gave the slightest ground for such views, nor the least entertainment to them.
 
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15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.