John 1:22-43
Christian Standard Bible
22 “Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”
23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord[a](A)—just as Isaiah(B) the prophet said.”
24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.(C) 25 So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”
26 “I baptize with[b] water,”(D) John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know him. 27 He is the one coming after me,[c](E) whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.” 28 All this happened in Bethany[d] across the Jordan,(F) where John was baptizing.
The Lamb of God
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God,(G) who takes away the sin(H) of the world! 30 This is the one I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ 31 I didn’t know him,(I) but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed(J) to Israel.” 32 And John testified, “I saw the Spirit(K) descending from heaven like a dove, and he rested on him.(L) 33 I didn’t know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The one you see the Spirit descending and resting on—he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’(M) 34 I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”[e](N)
35 The next day, John was standing with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus. 38 When Jesus turned and noticed them following him, he asked them, “What are you looking for?”
They said to him, “Rabbi”(O) (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come and you’ll see,” he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.[f]
40 Andrew,(P) Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed him. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah”[g](Q) (which is translated “the Christ”),(R) 42 and he brought Simon to Jesus.
When Jesus saw him, he said, “You are Simon, son of John.[h] You will be called Cephas”(S) (which is translated “Peter”[i]).
Philip and Nathanael
43 The next day Jesus[j] decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip(T) and told him, “Follow me.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1:23 Is 40:3
- 1:26 Or in, also in vv. 31,33
- 1:27 Other mss add who came before me
- 1:28 Other mss read in Bethabara
- 1:34 Other mss read is the Chosen One of God
- 1:39 Lit about the tenth hour
- 1:41 Both Hb Messiah and Gk Christos mean “anointed one”
- 1:42 Other mss read “Simon, son of Jonah
- 1:42 Both Aramaic Cephas and Gk Petros mean “rock”
- 1:43 Lit he
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