...said, After me eometh a man, whieh is preferred before me; for he was before me. 31 And I knew him no(! but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I eome baptizing with water. 33 And John bare reeord, saying, I saw the spirit ded I am one whose voiee...

...instituted by Joliji; at least ihis is his declaration (John i. 31,) "and I knew him not but that he might be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water." After so express a declaration, one wonders how this ceremony can have been adopted )>y Christians...

...dove, and rested upon Jiim," Matt. iii. 16. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. 21, 22. And John i. 32 — 34. " And John bare record, saying : I saw the Spirit descending...from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him And I saw, and bare record, that this is the Son of God." And ch. iii. 34-, says John the Baptist again :...

...John testified : " This is he of whom I said : After me cometh a man which is preferred before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest...Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water," &c. John i. 30, 38. And see Matt. iii. 11, 12; Mark i. 6 — 8; Luke i. 16, 17, 76, 77; iii. 16, 17;...

...is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man, who is preferred before me, for he was before me. And I knew him not ; but that he should be made manifest to Israel," or might be regularly introduced into his public office,"therefore am I come baptising with water."...

...is certain then, that he did not receive his commission from him. " And I knew him not," saith he, " but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water." If the manifesting Christ to Israel was the end and design of John's mission, he must have been in...

...way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esai-;s ;" with the following verses, especially verse 31. " And I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest to Israel : therefore am 1 come baptizing with water." So that it is evident, that Christ is he that in the first of Luke is...

...church, and this appointment was declared or made manifest in his baptism. Consequently John says, That he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore, am I come baptizing with water.l As, therefore, the baptism which Christ received, was the divinely appointed means ofdiscovenng...

...interpreted, he existed before me. witness, saying, " I saw the spirit coming down from hea33 ven as a dove; and it abode upon him. And I knew him not then: but he who sent me to baptize with water had said unto me, ' Upon whom thou shalt see the spirit...

...Israël, therefore am I corné baptiziug with water. 32 And John bare record', s"aying, I saw thé Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, thé same said uuto me, Upon whom...