George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
John 1:23
The voice of one crying in the wilderness. See Matthew iii. 3.; Mark i. 3.; Luke iii. 4.; and Isaias xl. 3. by all which John was his immediate precursor. (Witham)
The voice of one crying in the wilderness. See Matthew iii. 3.; Mark i. 3.; Luke iii. 4.; and Isaias xl. 3. by all which John was his immediate precursor. (Witham)
Verse 23. _I_ AM _THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING_] Matthew 3:3; and Mark 1:4, Mark 1:5....
I AM THE VOICE ... - See the notes at Matthew 3:3....
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTIST'S WITNESS ABOUT HIMSELF. Instead of recounting the work and mission of the Baptist, as the other gospels, the writer selects incidents which show him as the Witness. These incidents are ce...
AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. John answers this question by quoting Isaiah 40:3, where the prophet describes his mission. The passage is applied to John, Matthew 3:3; Mark 1:2, and Luk...
This is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him: "Who are you?" He quite definitely affirmed and stated: "I am not the Messiah." So they asked him:...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
I AM, &c. Quoting from Isaiah 40:3. See App-107. THE. a. THE LORD. App-98. ESAIAS. Isaiah. The first of four occurances of his name in John; and this from the latter part of Isaiah, which modern cr...
The Testimony of the Baptist 19 28. His Testimony to the Deputation from Jerusalem This section describes a crisis in the Baptist's ministry. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin....
_I am the voice_, &c. Or, _I am_ A _voice_. The Synoptists use these words of the Baptist as fulfilling prophecy. From this verse it would seem as if they were first so used by himself. The quotation...
THE TESTIMONY TO THE DEPUTATION FROM JERUSALEM 19–28. This section describes a crisis in the ministry of the Baptist. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin. It was a time of exciteme...
19–37. _The Testimony of the Baptist_, (α) to the deputation from Jerusalem, (β) to the people, (γ) to Andrew and John, John 1:31-51. _The Testimony of the Disciples:_ John 2:1-11 _The Testimony of th...
ἘΓῺ ΦΩΝῊ Κ.Τ.Λ. _I am a voice, &c_. The Synoptists use these words of John as fulfilling prophecy. From this it seems that they were first so used by himself. The quotation is from the LXX. with the c...
Ver 19. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? 20. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21. And...
_THE ETERNAL WORD WAS LIFTED UP BY JOHN -- (JOHN 1:19-34)_ John was a witness who lifted up God's Eternal Word. (John 1:19-28) John the Baptist was "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make str...
ΈΦΗ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΦΉΜΙ (G5345) говорить (VA, 444-47). ΒΟΏΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΒΟΆΩ (G994) кричать, восклицать. Имеется в виду крик, выражающий сильное чувство (Westcott). ΕΫΘΫ́ΝΑΤΕ _a...
I AM THE VOICE, &C.— It is to be feared that Clemens of Alexandria, and Archbishop Fenelon, lay too great a stress on the word φωνη, _voice,_ when the _former_ of these excellent men says, "Does not J...
JOHN'S ANSWER _Text 1:23-28_ 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. 24 And they had been sent from the Pharisee...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:19-34 Following our usual custom, we begin by submitting an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we have:— 1. The Jews’ inquiry of John, a...
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. HE SAID, I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. His Master was "The...
Government and education are still the panaceas proposed by the majority of priest-craft. But John wisely withdraws himself from their notice, and as the Voice, heralds the coming of the Messiah Himse...
1:23 Lord, (g-19) 'Lord' has no article here, which is irregular in Greek, but I do not doubt it is in place of the name 'Jehovah,' as in other Gospels. prophet. (h-24) Isaiah 40:3 ....
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
PUBLIC TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO JESUS IN REPLY TO A DEPUTATION FROM THE SANHEDRIN. The independence and fulness of the account of the Baptist in this Gospel renders it highly probable that the evan...
The words in Isaiah (Isaiah 40:3) refer to the preparation for the return from Babylon of the exiled Jews: the Baptist applies them to himself, as descriptive of his work: see on Matthew 3:3....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
But he still gives the “No.” They think of his person and his work. He thinks of neither. His eye is fixed on the coming One. In this presence his own personality has no existence. He is as a voice, n...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
_The witness of John and its result_....
The witness of John to the deputation from Jerusalem, entitled αὕτη ἐστὶν … Λευείτας. The witness or testimony of John is placed first, not only because it was that which influenced the evangelist him...
THE VOICE OF PROMISE John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was _made_ to _became,_ John 1:14. Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was a proces...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
I. FIRST TESTIMONY: JOHN 1:19-28. In unfolding in the Prologue the contents of faith, the apostle had adduced two testimonies of John the Baptist (John 1:6-8 and John 1:15); the second contains, as _B...
“ _They said then to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?_ 23. _He said, I am a voice crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the...
FIRST SECTION: 1:19-37. THE TESTIMONIES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. These testimonies are three in number and were given on three successive days (see John 1:29; John 1:35, “ _the next day_).” These three da...
II. SECOND TESTIMONY: VV. 29-34. How can we comprehend the fact that the deputies of the Sanhedrim left John without asking him who the person was of whom he intended to speak? Either they did not car...
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
_A MESSAGE FOR TO-DAY_ ‘Make straight the way of the Lord.’ John 1:23 An old message; yet one for our own day. Lacking now, indeed, the dramatic surroundings of its first delivery: the man from the...
23._The voice of him who crieth_. As he would have been chargeable with rashness in undertaking the office of teaching, if he had not received a commission, he shows what was the duty which he had to...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
AND HE SAID, I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS,.... These words are cited by the other evangelists, and applied to John the Baptist; but then they are only to be considered as their citat...
He said, I _am_ the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. Ver. 23. _I am the voice of one crying_] Christ spake not a word to Herod, sa...
_And this is the record of John_ This is the testimony which he bare publicly to Jesus; _when the Jews_ Namely, the senate, or great council of the nation; _sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem_ Pe...
THE VOICE; Matthew 3:3....
HE SAID, I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD, AS SAID THE PROPHET ESAIAS. The gospel-history begins with the testimony of John the Baptist, since his prea...
THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. The embassy of the Jews:...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
19-28 John disowns himself to be the Christ, who was now expected and waited for. He came in the spirit and power of Elias, but he was not the person of Elias. John was not that Prophet whom Moses sa...
We had the same, SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 3:3", SEE POOLE ON "MARK 1:3". Chemnitius thinks, that John chose rather to preach and fulfil his ministry in the wilderness, than in the temple; to make an illu...
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen He will deny that he is Christ, but will profess himself to be "a voice crying in the wilderness." Who, then, is John?[15] Tertullian An Answer to th...
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‘They therefore said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”. He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness - ‘Make the wa...
JOHN THE BAPTISER'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS AND THE CALLING OF DISCIPLES (JOHN 1:19). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed in the o...
We enter here upon the second great division of the Gospel, extending from John 1:19 to John 2:11, and containing the presentation of Jesus, as He takes His place in the field of human history and, al...
John 1:23. HE SAID, I AM A VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD, AS SAID THE PROPHET ISAIAH. The words are from Isaiah 40:3, and, though slightly modified in form,...
HE SAID (εφη). Common imperfect active (or second aorist active) of φημ, to say, old defective verb.I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS (Εγω φωνη βοωντος εν τη ερημω). For his answer Jo...
John 1:23 I. I do not think we often question respecting the course and testimony of Christ's forerunner _whereunto served it?_We know that by it the Jewish people as a whole _were not_prepared to rec...
John 1:19 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally preceded...
John 1:19. _And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ._ «I...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
John 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
John 1:19. And this in the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
THE VOICE OF ONE WHO SHOOTS IN THE DESERT. See note on Matthew 3:3. He was to get things ready for Jesus to carry out his mission....
_What sayest thou of thyself?_ I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MADE THE MAN. John was the transition point between the old and the new. The old religion was breaking up as was evident in the multiplicatio...
_The record of John_ _ I._ AN INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE OF TRUE HUMILITY. 1. John was an eminent saint of God (Matthew 11:11; John 5:35),yet we see him lowly and self-abased. (1) He refuses the honour w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:23 THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS. See Isaiah 40:3; compare Matthew 3
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:19 Signs of the Messiah, with Teaching about Life in Him. The first half of John’s Gospel features Jesus’ demonstration of his messianic identity through several selected “signs” ...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
_I am the Voice_, &c. (Isa 40:3), where I have expounded the meaning. Listen to what the Fathers say about it. "I am a servant, and prepare paths, your hearts, for the Lord," says Theophylact. "I come...
PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM (John 1:19) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is not the Chri...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
Isaiah 40:3; John 3:28; Luke 1:16; Luke 1:17; Luke 1:76;...
He said — I am that forerunner of Christ of whom Isaiah speaks. I am the voice — As if he had said, Far from being Christ, or even Elijah, I am nothing but a voice: a sound that so soon as it has expr...