John Gill's Exposition on John 1:30

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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This is he, of whom it is said, etc.] Either the day before, as in (<430127>John 1:27), or some time before that, (<430115>John 1:15), when he first began to baptize, even before Christ came to be baptized by him, and before he personally knew him; (see <400311>Matthew 3:11,13). After me cometh a man; not a mere man, but the man God’s fellow: and this is said, not because he was now a grown man, or to show the truth of his human nature; but seems to be a common Hebraism, and is all one as if it had been said, “after me cometh one”, or a certain person: for the sense of this phrase, and what follows, see Gill “<430115>John 1:15”.

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