John 1:31 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³¹ And I would not have recognized Him, but I came immersing people in water so that He would become known to the Israelites.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And I did not know Him and did not recognize Him [myself]; but it is in order that He should be made manifest and be revealed to Israel [be brought out where we can see Him] that I came baptizing in (with) water.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water.

Common English Bible

³¹ Even I didn’t recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be made known to Israel.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And I did not know him. Yet it is for this reason that I come baptizing with water: so that he may be made manifest in Israel."

John 1:31 Cross References

Matthew 3:13

Jesus then came from [the province of] Galilee to be immersed by John in the Jordan River.

Matthew 3:6

and people were immersed by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Luke 1:17

He will go on ahead of the Messiah [See verse 76], in the spirit and power of Elijah, to rekindle the affections of fathers for their children, and [to influence] disobedient people to live wisely like righteous people. And he will prepare the people to be ready for [the coming of] the Lord.”

John 1:30

He is the One about whom I said, ‘A man will come after me who ranks above me, for He existed before me.’

John 1:32

So, John gave his testimony, saying, “I have seen the Holy Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it remained on Him.

John 1:33

And I did not recognize Him, but He [i.e., God], who sent me to immerse in water, said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Holy Spirit descending and remaining is the same One who [will] immerse people in the Holy Spirit.’

John 1:7

He came to be a witness, so that he might testify concerning that Light, so that all people would believe [in Jesus] through him [i.e., through his testimony. See Acts 19:4].

Acts 19:4

Paul [then] said, “John immersed people who [demonstrated their] repentance, telling them they must believe in Jesus, the One who would come after him.”