VERSE STUDY • KJV

John 1:28

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

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These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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