John 3:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁸ Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ You yourselves are my witnesses [you personally bear me out] that I stated, I am not the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), but I have [only] been sent before Him [in advance of Him, to be His appointed forerunner, His messenger, His announcer]. [Mal. 3:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.

Common English Bible

²⁸ You yourselves can testify that I said that I’m not the Christ but that I’m the one sent before him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ You yourselves offer testimony for me that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but that I have been sent before him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ You yourselves do bear me witness, that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.

John 3:28 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 3:3

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Luke 1:76

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

John 1:20

And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

John 1:23

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.

John 1:25

And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Eli´jah, neither that Prophet?

John 1:27

he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe-latchet I am not worthy to unloose.