John 1:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ John answered them, I [only] baptize in (with) water. Among you there stands One Whom you do not recognize and with Whom you are not acquainted and of Whom you know nothing. [Mal. 3:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,

Common English Bible

²⁶ John answered, “I baptize with water. Someone greater stands among you, whom you don’t recognize.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ John answered them by saying: "I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ John answered them, saying: I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.

John 1:26 Cross References

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 1:8

I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

Luke 3:16

John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

John 17:25

“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 8:19

Then they said to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Acts 1:5

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 11:16

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

Acts 19:4

Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.