John's Witness
Approximately AD 27, lasting about 1 day. 20 verses describe this event.
Scripture
- John 1:15
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
- John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
- John 1:19
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
- John 1:20
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
- John 1:21
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
- John 1:22
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
- John 1:23
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
- John 1:24
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
- John 1:25
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
- John 1:26
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;