john 1:33 meaning

He that sent me - said unto me - From this we may clearly perceive that John had a most intimate acquaintance with the Divine Being; and received not only his call and mission at first, but every subsequent direction, by immediate, unequivocal inspiration.

II. Therefore he is here giving not his own opinion about Jesus, but the evidence of a sign from heaven.

33. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/john-1.html. How can warmth cleanse?

But to what purpose mark a contrast between Jesus and God? Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsc/john-1.html.

Ἐφ' ὃν ἄν. The Expositor's Greek Testament. Proud member On the contrary, He who had sent him to baptise had given him this sign by which to recognise the Christ.— ἐφʼ ὃν ἂν ἴδῃς … πνεύματι ἁγίῳ.

Undoubtedly, when they were going out, they already knew that God would conduct and watch over their deliverance; but this was a confirmation a posteriori, as the phrase is; that is, from the event, after it had taken place. John 1:33. οὐκ ᾔδειν) I knew Him not, before that I saw the Spirit descending.— ὁ πέμψας με, He that sent me) God. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/john-1.html.

But what about the Christian Churches? The words ἐφ᾿ ὃν ἄν (on whom), indicate the most unlimited contingency: Whoever he may be, though he be the poorest of the Israelites.

Isaiah 44:3. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. The indication of the sign by which He should be manifested to him; 4.

Better, as Rev., Holy Spirit. "And neither did I know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me: The man on whom thou shalt see the Spirit descend and abide, is he who baptizeth with the Holy Spirit.".

John’s recognition of Jesus as the Messiah (whom he had not before known as such) rested upon a revelation previously made to him with this intent; and this he now states, solemnly repeating, however, the declaration of his own ignorance ( κἀγὼ οὐκ ᾔδειν αὐτόν ). Used by Permission. Standard Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.

https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/john-1.html. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/fam/john-1.html. Which baptized with the Holy Ghost; whose it is to give both the ordinary and the miraculous influences of the Spirit. BibliographyGill, John.

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Emphasizing the personal communication of Christ to the Baptist. Here, however, it would seem to signify the element of the new life, as ἐν ὕδατι, in water, signifies the element of the symbolic baptism, and might better be rendered in. 1874-1909. The sign, moreover, stands to the thing designated in an inner and essential connection, which is only discovered by the revelation made to the Baptist. John 1:33 New Living Translation (NLT) 33 I didn’t know he was the one, but when God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’. Not only was a sign given (John 1:32); but this sign was that which had been promised, and the meaning of which had been indicated beforehand. John 1:33, CSB: "I didn’t know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The one you see the Spirit descending and resting on -- he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit…

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His bodily presence is removed from us for a time, but He is still in our midst the Captain of our Salvation, the Leader and Commander of His people. 1871-8.

First, in this verse John uses two participles to describe the presence of the Spirit. 1897-1910. the Holy Ghost = holy spirit.

The emphatic resumption of the subject by the pronoun ἐκεῖνος, he, with its meaning which is so emphatic in John, makes prominent this idea: That everything in this testimony proceeds from Jehovah, and Jehovah only.

1832. I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? The preposition ἐν , in (Rev., in margin), often has the instrumental force, with. Here and John 20:22 neither substantive nor epithet has the article, in John 14:26 both have it. With regard to this statement, we note the following points.

He was not authorized to say of Jesus, This is the one of whom I spoke, till he had received from God the sign named in this verse.

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Not so perfectly till I heard that testimony from heaven. II. Now he had not yet seen the Spirit, when he had addressed Christ as the Son of God. The absence of the article from Holy Spirit falls in with this, as indicating the spiritual influence of the divine Agent rather than His personality.

Because of the importance of the identification of the Messiah the Baptist reiterates that his proclamation of Jesus was not a private idea for which he alone was responsible. The essence of the Holy Spirit is communication: Jesus being the Christ, the anointed with the Spirit, must communicate it. There is often the same lack in the daily life and experience of God’s children.

1999. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. S. Luke rarely omits the epithet, which he uses about 40 times in the Acts.

μένον. "And I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me.

In John 1:6 the verb used was ἀποστέλλω. He therefore describes the giver of the revelation as ὁ πέμψας με, κ. τ. λ., and the evangelist puts the statement in the conditional form: ἐφʼ ὃν ἂν, κ. τ. λ., i.e., according to the connection of the narrative: “When, in the fulfilment of this your mission, you shall see the Spirit descending upon one of those whom thou baptizest, this is He,” etc.

BibliographyClarke, Adam. I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". When, in the fulfilment of this your mission, you shall see the Spirit descending upon one of those whom thou baptizest, this is He. Renewal 1960.

it follows that he must have previously known Christ.

John 1:33. κἀγὼ οὐκ ᾔδειν … ἐκεῖνός μοι εἶπεν. ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ. That this is the Son of God - This was distinctly declared by a voice from heaven at his baptism, Matthew 3:17.

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 Spirit. Who is fit to proclaim Jesus, but he who has continual intercourse with God; who is constantly receiving light and life from Christ their fountain; who bears a steady, uniform testimony to Jesus, even in the presence of his enemies; and who at all times abases himself, that Jesus alone may be magnified! John 1:33.

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obscures by translating it in seven different ways. "Frédéric Louis Godet - Commentary on Selected Books". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/john-1.html.

"Commentary on John 1:33". By the baptism of water, John gives to the repentant sinner the pledge of pardon and the promise of sanctification; by the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Messiah realizes this last promise, and accomplishes thereby the highest destiny of the human soul. And such an enthusiastic virtue Christ was to introduce.” In affirming that the Christ baptises with the Holy Spirit, and that this is what distinguishes the Christ, the Baptist steps on to grouud where his affirmations can be tested by experience. With the outside world we are not surprised to find it so.—They have left no room for Christ in their counsels. 33.

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 warrant and commission for what he did: the same said unto me; either by an articulate voice, or by a divine impulse on his mind, or by the revelation of the Spirit: upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost; that is, the Messiah; See Gill on Matthew 3:11, Matthew 3:16. John 1:31.

The Apostles, in the Holy War they waged against sin and heathenism and corrupt Judaism, only knew two remedies for human depravity, the Blood of the Lamb and the Fire of the Holy Ghost. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Lk. The act of baptizing with the Holy Spirit is indicated here as the peculiar work of the Messiah. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tfg/john-1.html. The command to baptize; 2. Historically He is better known, we worship Him as the Christ, the Messiah of God.

The answer is that moral warmth does cleanse.

In the first place, it ought to be observed, that the knowledge here mentioned is that which arises from personal and long acquaintance. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cpc/john-1.html. The designation of this communication as a baptism very naturally arose from its close relation to the work of the Baptist’s mission (comp. Here a difficult question arises; for if John did not know Christ, why does he refuse to admit him to baptism? The same is he—Though John may have recognized Jesus, even as the Messiah, at the moment before his baptism, by spiritual insight or divine prophetic impulse; yet he was bound to wait the divine sign, which marked the Christ out from all the race as the very one and no other, before he could officially know him as Messiah.

BibliographyEdwards, Justin. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. By it John was referred to some outwardly visible σημεῖον ( ἴδῃς) of the Spirit, in a general way, without any definition of its form.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said to me, On whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/vnt/john-1.html. The Spirit coming down and resting on Christ, is the source from which He baptizes with the Holy Ghost.