John 1:29-42 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 1:29-36

We have in these verses an account of John's testimony concerning Jesus Christ, which he witnessed to his own disciples that followed him. As soon as ever Christ was baptized he was immediately hurried into the wilderness, to be tempted; and there he was forty days. During his absence John had continued to bear testimony to him, and to tell the people of him; but now at last he sees Jesus coming to him, returning from the wilderness of temptation. As soon as that conflict was over Christ... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 1:37-42

We have here the turning over of two disciples from John to Jesus, and one of them fetching in a third, and these are the first-fruits of Christ's disciples; see how small the church was in its beginnings, and what the dawning of the day of its great things was. I. Andrew and another with him were the two that John Baptist had directed to Christ, John 1:37. Who the other was we are not told; some think that it was Thomas, comparing John 21:2; others that it was John himself, the penman of this... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:29-31

1:29-31 On the next day, John saw Jesus as he was coming towards him, and said: "See! The Lamb of God who is taking away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said to you: 'There is a man who is coming after me, who has been advanced before me, because he was before me.' Even I did not know him. All the same, the reason that I came baptizing with water is that he might be shown forth to Israel." Here we come to the second day of this momentous week in the life of Jesus. By this time... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:32-34

1:32-34 So John bore his witness. "With my own eyes," he said, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven, as it might have been a dove, and the Spirit remained upon him. And I did not know him. But it was he who sent me to baptize with water who said to me: 'The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' And I saw it happen; and my witness stands that this is the Son of God." Something had happened at the baptism of Jesus which... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:35-39

1:35-39 On the next day John was again standing with two of his disciples. John looked at Jesus as he walked. "See!" he said, "The Lamb of God!" And the two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following him. "What are you looking for?" he said to them. "Rabbi" (the word means Teacher), they said to him, "where are you staying?" He said to them: "Come and see!" They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him throughout that day. And it... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:40-42

1:40-42 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who had heard John speaking about Jesus, and who had followed him. First thing in the morning, he went and found his own brother Simon. "We have found the Messiah," he said to him. (The word Messiah means the same as the word Christ.) He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him. "You are Simon, Jona's son," he said. "You will be called Cephas." Cephas is the same name as Peter and means a rock. The Revised Standard Version... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:29

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him ,.... Not to be baptized, for he had been baptized before by him. This seems to have been after Christ had been forty days in the wilderness, from whence he now returned, and came to attend on John's ministry; both to do honour to him, and that he might be made manifest by him; and this was the day after John had bore such a testimony concerning him, to the priests and Levites; and which Christ the omniscient God, knew full well, and therefore... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:30

This is he, of whom it is said ,.... Either the day before, as in John 1:27 , or some time before that, John 1:15 , when he first began to baptize, even before Christ came to be baptized by him, and before he personally knew him; see Matthew 3:11 . After me cometh a man ; not a mere man, but the man God's fellow: and this is said, not because he was now a grown man, or to show the truth of his human nature; but seems to be a common Hebraism, and is all one as if it had been said,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:31

And I knew him not ,.... Ομμασιν , "by sight", as Nonnus paraphrases it; personally he had never seen him, nor had had any conversation and familiarity with him; for though they were related to each other, yet lived at such a distance, as not to know one another, or have a correspondence with each other: John was in the deserts, until the day of his showing unto Israel; and Christ dwelt with his parents at Nazareth, in a very mean and obscure manner, till he came from thence to Jordan to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:32

And John bare record ,.... The same day that he said the above things, and at the same time: saying, I saw the Spirit ; that is, of God, as is said in Matthew 3:16 and which Nonnus here expresses; and the Ethiopic version reads, "the Holy Ghost", descending from heaven like a dove ; at the time of his baptism; see Gill on Matthew 3:16 . And it abode upon him ; for some time; so long as that John had a full sight of it, and so was capable of giving a perfect account of it, and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 1:29-36

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 1:37-42

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:29-31

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:32-34

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:35-39

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:40-42

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:32

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