John Chapter 3 verse 28 Holy Bible
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.
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You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.
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Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.
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Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
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You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'
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ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - Ye yourselves (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 for similar emphatic pronoun) bear me witness - you will do it readily, if I challenge you, for my testimonies were frequent and varied (in fact, the synoptists and the fourth evangelist are equally explicit here) - that I said, I am not the Messiah (John 1:20; Matthew 3:11, 12; Luke 3:15-17). This announcement, made with great publicity at Bethany, was the basis of the present remonstrance; and the words which follow strongly sustain John's reference to the Divine predestination in his own case and that of Jesus (ἀλλ ὅτι may point back to the discourse of John, or may simply indicate transition to the second statement). But that I am one sent (on a special mission) before him. He boldly implies, "This is more than I have already testified concerning 'the Christ;' and my place is not at his side, not following in his train. I am 'a voice;' my work is continuously to break up a way for him. I am here still, making the mountains low, and filling up the valleys for the approach of the great King." A man can receive nothing in the shape of lifework except that which is assigned to him out of heaven.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) Ye yourselves bear me witness.--They remembered (John 3:26) that John had borne witness to Jesus. Did they not remember too what he had said? He had from the first known his own work, and the greater work. Some of his disciples had known it also, and had gone from him to Jesus. This which they see was the necessary result of the truth he had ever declared.
