Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



And this was his message: "After me there is coming one stronger than I am, one whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the holy Spirit."


I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing-floor, and store his wheat in his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire."

John said to them all, "I am only baptizing you in water, but someone is coming who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to untie. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire. He has his winnowing fork in his hand, to clean up his threshing-floor, and store his wheat in his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire."


John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized. For John had not yet been put in prison. So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification. read more.
And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him." John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven. You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.' It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete. He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less." He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others. It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true. For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure. The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true. You yourselves sent to John, and he testified to the truth.

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true." Verse ConceptsTruthJohn The BaptistSpeaking TruthNo SignsMiracles

Toward the end of his career, John said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he! No! Someone is coming after me, the shoes on whose feet I am not fit to untie!' Verse ConceptsSandalsShoesWho Is John The Baptist?Undoing Fastenings



And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true." Verse ConceptsTruthJohn The BaptistSpeaking TruthNo SignsMiracles

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.' It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete. He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less." read more.
He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others. It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true. For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure. The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

You yourselves sent to John, and he testified to the truth.

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." And they were all amazed. Then his voice and the use of his tongue were immediately restored, and he blessed God aloud. And all their neighbors were overcome with fear, and all over the hill-country of Judea all these stories were told, read more.
and everyone who heard them kept them in mind, and said, "What is this child going to be?" For the Lord's hand was with him. And his father Zechariah was filled with the holy Spirit and he uttered a divine message, saying, "Blessings on the Lord, the God of Israel, Because he has turned his attention to his people, and brought about their deliverance, And he has produced a mighty Savior for us In the house of his servant David. "By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us, Thus showing mercy to our forefathers, And keeping his sacred agreement, "And the oath that he swore to our forefather Abraham, That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies, And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives. "And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready,

There appeared a man by the name of John, with a message from God. He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him. He was not the light; he came to testify to the light. read more.
The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world. He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him. But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God, owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God. So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father. (John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven. You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

You yourselves sent to John, and he testified to the truth. But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved. He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.