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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me. Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. I doubt not that John had assuredly...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I knew him not,.... That is, before he came to be baptized by him; when it was secretly suggested to him who he was, and the following signal was given him, to confirm him in it: but he that sent me to baptize with water; or "in water"; that is, God; for John's mission was from God, as in John 1:6, and his baptism from heaven; he had a divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw and bare record, that this is the Son of God. Notice how very clear John is. There is no mistaking him. He repeated himself lest there should be any...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I saw,.... The Spirit descending from heaven as a dove, and lighting upon Jesus, and remaining some time on him; this he saw with his bodily eyes: and bore record; at the same time, before all the people that were with him, when he baptized Jesus: that this is the Son of God; the natural, essential, and eternal Son of God; who being sent in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. Hear ye, then, the witness of John. The Christ, who came from Nazareth to be baptized of him in Jordan, he on whom the Holy Ghost descended like a dove, “this is the Son of God.” This is the sin-bearing Lamb. Oh, that you and I might fulfill John’s expectation, for he spoke that we might...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Again, the next day after,.... The third day from the priests and Levites having been with John, to know who he was. The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, leave out the word "again": John stood, and two of his disciples; one of these was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, as appears from John 1:40 and very likely the other was the Evangelist John,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as he walked, With holy reverence, with loving awe, gazing upon this extraordinary Person “as he walked”, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! This was the same text from which he had preached the day before, and it was the same sermon, somewhat shortened. So should it be with us. His only righteousness I show, His saving truth proclaim; ‘Tis all my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples: And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God? There is no objection to preaching the same sermon twice if it be on such a matter as this. “Behold the Lamb of God,” he said one day, and the next day he did not vary the phraseology. He had no new metaphor — no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! “Again the next day.” See how the Evangelist goes by days in his record. John preached the same sermon two days running, and if you proclaim Christ and him crucified, you may preach him two hundred days running, but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And looking upon Jesus as he walked,.... Either by them; or as he was going from them to his lodgings; it being toward the close of the day, when John had finished his work for that day, and the people were departing home: John fixed his eyes intently on Christ, with great pleasure and delight, and pointing at him, he saith, behold the Lamb of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. This is our one business tonight, to cry, “Behold the Lamb of God!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the two disciples heard him speak,.... The above words, and took notice of them; faith in Christ came by hearing them; they reached their hearts, and they found their affections, and the desires of their souls, to be after Christ: and they followed Jesus; left their master, and went after him, in order to get some acquaintance with him, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. Thus John was losing his own disciples. By his testimony to the truth, he was sending them to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, and he did it well and gracefully. There are many who would find it a hard task to reduce the number of their disciples; but it was not so with John.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. They went beyond their teacher. And oh! what a mercy it is if our hearers can go Christward far beyond us. John was well content to be left behind if they followed Jesus; and so may any minister of Christ rejoice if his people will follow Jesus, even if they go far beyond his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. It is hard preaching when you preach away your congregation, but John did this deliberately, He wished these two no longer to be his disciples, but to become the disciples of Jesus. He had mastered the meaning of his own words, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” and he was quite...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then Jesus turned, and saw them following,.... That is, "him", as the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions add: he saw by their walk, and by their countenances, that they were following him; and which he knew before he turned himself: he knew what John had said, and what an effect it had upon these disciples, and what was working in their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye ? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou ? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two which heard John speak, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? Christ wants intelligent followers: so he asks the question, “What seek ye?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master), where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see, Which is often his answer to enquirers — “Come and see.” “Oh! taste and see that the Lord is good.” Learn by experience. Do not merely hear what I say, but come and see.