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John the Baptist Exalts Christ

22 After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He remained with them aand baptized.  
23 Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near aSalim, because there was much water there. bAnd they came and were baptized.  
24 For aJohn had not yet been thrown into prison.  
25 Then there arose a dispute between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purification.
26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, ato whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing, and all bare coming to Him!”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 3:24

John not yet cast into prison—Hence it is plain that our Lord's ministry did not commence with the imprisonment of John, though, but for this, we should have drawn that inference from Matthew 4:12 and Mark's (Mark 1:14) express statement.



John 3:22-24

JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE BAPTIST—HIS NOBLE TESTIMONY TO HIS MASTER. (John 3:22-36)

land of Judea—the rural parts of that province, the foregoing conversation being held in the capital.

baptized—in the sense explained in John 4:2.


 
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