John 3:28 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁸ You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been 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 send 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, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 3:3

For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

John 1:20

He confessed, he did not deny, 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 the prophet Isaiah said.”

John 1:25

They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

John 1:27

even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”