John 1:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ I myself did not know him, but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel.”

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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

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 3:13

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him.

Matthew 3:6

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

Luke 1:17

With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

John 1:30

This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’

John 1:32

And John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

John 1:33

I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.

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.”