Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He said (ekeinov eipen). Explicit and emphatic pronoun as in verse John 1:8, referring to God as the one who sent John (verse John 1:6).
With the Holy Spirit (en pneumati agiw). "In the Holy Spirit." Here again one needs the background of the Synoptics for the contrast between John's baptism in water (John 1:26) and that of the Messiah in the Holy Spirit (Mark 1:8; Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 1:33:
John 1:31
John 1:32
John 3:26
John 5:11
John 10:42
John 19:35
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