John 1:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 3:11 : 11 `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
  • Mark 1:8 : 8 I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'
  • Luke 3:16 : 16 John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;
  • John 1:10-11 : 10 in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him: 11 to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
  • Acts 1:5 : 5 because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'
  • John 8:19 : 19 They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'
  • John 16:3 : 3 and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
  • John 17:25 : 25 `Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,
  • Acts 11:16 : 16 and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
  • Mal 3:1-2 : 1 Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts. 2 And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he `is' as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 1:25
    85%

    25and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

  • John 1:30-34
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    84%

    30this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

    31and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.

    32And John testified, saying -- `I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;

    33and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

    34and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

  • John 1:27-28
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    27of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

    28These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

  • Luke 3:15-16
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    15And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;

    16John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

  • John 3:25-26
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    81%

    25there arose then a question from the disciples of John with `some' Jews about purifying,

    26and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

  • Mark 1:7-10
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    7and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;

    8I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

    9And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;

    10and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;

  • Matt 3:11
    77%

    11`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

  • Acts 13:24-25
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    77%

    24John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

    25and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not `he', but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of `his' feet.

  • John 1:19-23
    5 verses
    77%

    19And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?'

    20and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.'

    21And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

    22They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'

    23He said, `I `am' a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

  • John 3:28
    76%

    28ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

  • John 1:6
    76%

    6There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name `is' John,

  • John 1:15
    75%

    15John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'

  • Matt 3:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

    14but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!'

  • Acts 19:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.'

    4And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe -- that is, in the Christ -- Jesus;'

  • Acts 1:5
    74%

    5because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'

  • John 3:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

    23and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --

  • 1 Cor 1:15
    73%

    15that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

  • Mark 1:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3`A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

    4John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

    5and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

  • John 1:8
    73%

    8that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.

  • Mark 11:30
    73%

    30the baptism of John -- from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.'

  • Matt 11:3
    72%

    3said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'

  • Matt 3:1
    72%

    1And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

  • Luke 20:4
    72%

    4the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'

  • Matt 3:3
    72%

    3for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'

  • Luke 7:27-29
    3 verses
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    27this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

    28for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.'

    29And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

  • Matt 3:6
    72%

    6and they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.

  • John 4:2
    72%

    2(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

  • Matt 11:10
    71%

    10for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.