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John Gill's Exposition on John 1:40

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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One of the two which heard John [speak], etc.] The above things, concerning Jesus being the Lamb of God: and followed him; that is, Jesus, as the Syriac and Arabic versions read; and the Persic version, Christ: and the Ethiopic version, “the Lord Jesus”; for not John, but Jesus they followed: was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother: (see <400418>Matthew 4:18) the other, as before observed, might be the writer of this Gospel.
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