People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.

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Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

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John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah

19 Now this was John’s(A) testimony when the Jewish leaders[a](B) in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:19 The Greek term traditionally translated the Jews (hoi Ioudaioi) refers here and elsewhere in John’s Gospel to those Jewish leaders who opposed Jesus; also in 5:10, 15, 16; 7:1, 11, 13; 9:22; 18:14, 28, 36; 19:7, 12, 31, 38; 20:19.

19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

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