A moment in scripture
John 1:27
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He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
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The surrounding passage
- John 1:25
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
- John 1:26
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
- John 1:28
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
- John 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.