World English Bible
John 1:31
“I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”
Verse in context — John 1
29
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30
This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.
31
I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.
32
John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
33
I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.
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