Matthew 3:11

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¹¹^(A)^[a]Indeed I baptize you with water to ^[b]amendment of life, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

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Matthew 3:11 We may neither dwell upon the signs which God hath ordained as means to lead us unto our salvation, neither upon them: but we must climb up to the matter itself, that is to say, to Christ, who inwardly worketh that effectually, which is outwardly signified unto us.
Matthew 3:11 The outward sign putteth us in mind of this, that we must change our lives and become better, assuring us as by a seal, that we are engrafted into Christ; whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth up, Rom. 6:4.

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Mark 1:7

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⁷^(A)^[a]And preached, saying, A stronger than I cometh after me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to ^[b]stoop down, and unloose.

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Mark 1:7 John and all ministers cast their eyes upon Christ the Lord.
Mark 1:7 The Evangelist his meaning was to express the condition of the basest servant.

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John 1:20

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²⁰And he ^[a]confessed and ^[b]denied not, and said plainly, I ^(A)am not that Christ.

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John 1:20 He did acknowledge him, and spake of him plainly and openly.
John 1:20 This repeating of the one and the selfsame thing, though in divers words, is used much of the Hebrews, and it hath great force: for they used to speak one thing twice, to set it out more certainly and plainly.

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