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Observe the mildness of the former question, so befitting the priestly and levitical character, Who art thou? There is nothing arrogant or disrespectful, but only what becomes true ministers of God. The Pharisees however, being a sectarian body, as their name implies, address the Baptist in an importunate and contumelious way.
to be: thou art (or thou beest), thou wast / w ɒ s t / (or subjunctive thou wert; originally thou were) to have: thou hast, thou hadst; to do: thou dost / d ʌ s t / (or thou doest in non-auxiliary use) and thou didst; shall: thou shalt; will: thou wilt; A few others are not inflected: must: thou must
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; The New International Version translates the passage as: "I baptize with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know".
(John 1:33)" [4] Augustine: "What was he called? whose name was John?" [4] Alcuin: "That is, the grace of God, or one in whom is grace, who by his testimony first made known to the world the grace of the New Testament, that is, Christ. Or John may be taken to mean, to whom it is given: because that through the grace of God, to him it was given ...
Although it would appear from these verses that John the Baptist was uncertain about Jesus being the Messiah, the traditional understanding from many church fathers, as seen in the next section, is that John merely sent his disciples to Christ so that "they might learn from Himself that He was the very Messiah, or Christ, that when John was dead they might go to Him."
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī Yaḥyā ...
Hill notes that the word beloved can be interpreted as meaning only. [5] The entire message is often seen as a reference to Psalm 2:7 . There is also a possible link to Isaiah 42:1 , the opening verse of the first of the " servant songs ", which also speaks of a beloved of whom God is pleased.
It seems that John the Baptist often bore witness to Jesus, that He was the Messiah, both before and after his baptism. "The Jews sent ...": According to Catholic writer Robert Witham , these men were priests and Levites who appear to have been sent by the Sanhedrin to enquire of John the Baptist , who was then held in great esteem, to see if ...