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John 1:40-41
“One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (which means Christ).” John shows in this passage the continuous multiplication of the gospel. It starts with the declaration from John the…
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John 1:31
“’I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.’” John has just attested to who Jesus is and how He was coming after him. In this verse, John the Baptist shows that Jesus is the reason that he was even baptizing…
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John 1:29
“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” We have just read how John the Baptist dealt with the religious leaders who were challenging Him. John the Baptist did not get distracted by trying to defend against the…
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John 1:30
“This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because He was before me.’” John the Baptist is continuing from the last verse explaining Jesus and declaring Him to the crowd. It is interesting to take note that after John the Baptist gives the gospel in a…
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John 1:24-28
“Now the Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, ‘Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?’ ‘I baptize with water,’ John replied, ‘but among you stands one you do not know. He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am…
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John 1:15
“John bore witness about Him, and cried out, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because He was before me.’” John wrote this verse as an example of what he had been talking about. John has been showing us two men as a comparison. One is…
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John 1:7-8
“He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.” John the Baptist is still being talked about here in this passage. We see the mission for which God has sent him—to bear…
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John 1:6
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” After talking about the God man, Jesus, a second man is introduced. Who is this man? He is the man simply described in his introduction as a man sent from God. John the Baptist—not to be confused with John the writer of the gospel—is the…
The Traveling Mountains 