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John 1:19

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this:

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He came as a witness--to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.

When the Jews gathered round him, and said: "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so frankly."

The Jews again brought stones to throw at him;

A number of the Jews had come there to condole with Martha and Mary on their brother's death.

Upon this the Jews asked Jesus: "What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?"

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.

Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.'

Upon this the Jews began disputing with one another: "How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh to eat?"

After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were eager to put him to death.

The Jews were looking for him at the Festival and asking 'Where is he?';

The Jews were astonished. "How has this man got his learning," they asked, "when he has never studied?"

"Is he going to kill himself," the Jews exclaimed, "that he says--'You cannot go where I am going'?"

"Are not we right, after all," replied the Jews, "in saying that you are a Samaritan, and are possessed by a demon?"

"Now we are sure that you are possessed by a demon," the Jews replied. "Abraham died, and so did the Prophets; and yet you say 'If any one lays my Message to heart, he will never know death.'

"You are not fifty years old yet," the Jews exclaimed, "and have you seen Abraham?"

As John was drawing towards the end of his career, he said what do you suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But there is "One Coming" after me, whose very sandal I am not worthy to untie.'

"John's baptism was a baptism upon repentance," rejoined Paul, "and John told the people (speaking of the 'One Coming; after him) that they should believe in him--that is in Jesus."

These, then, are the Tidings that we have heard from him and now tell you-- 'God is Light, and Darkness has no place at all in him.'




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