John 1:31

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Summary

John 1:31

And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

I knew

John 1:33

Luke 1:80

Luke 2:39

But

Luke 1:17

Therefore

Bible References

I knew

I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

When they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city of Nazareth.

But

He came

as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

A voice is calling,

“Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will

clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the

messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Therefore

and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.’”

And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”