Mark 1:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

John also told the people, “Someone more powerful is going to come. And I am not good enough even to stoop down and untie his sandals.

Cross References

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water so that you will give up your sins. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Matthew 3:14

But John kept objecting and said, “I ought to be baptized by you. Why have you come to me?”

Mark 1:6

John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

Mark 1:8

I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!”

Luke 3:16

John said, “I am just baptizing with water. But someone more powerful is going to come, and I am not good enough even to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

John 1:27

Even though I came first, I am not good enough to untie his sandals.”

Acts 13:25

Then, when John's work was almost done, he said, “Who do you people think I am? Do you think I am the Promised One? He will come later, and I am not good enough to untie his sandals.”

Acts 19:4

Paul replied, “John baptized people so that they would turn to God. But he also told them that someone else was coming, and that they should put their faith in him. Jesus is the one that John was talking about.”

1 Samuel 25:41

She bowed down and said, “I would willingly be David's slave and wash his servants' feet.”