John 1:31 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

John 1:31 Cross References

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 3:13

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

Matthew 3:6

and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

Luke 1:17

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Eli´jah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

John 1:30

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

John 1:32

And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

John 1:33

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 Ghost.

John 1:7

The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

Acts 19:4

Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.