Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Mightier than I (isxuroterov mou). Ablative after the comparative adjective. His baptism is water baptism, but the Coming One "will baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire." "Life in the coming age is in the sphere of the Spirit. Spirit and fire are coupled with one preposition as a double baptism" (McNeile). Broadus takes "fire" in the sense of separation like the use of the fan. As the humblest of servants John felt unworthy to take off the sandals of the Coming One. About bastazw see on Matthew 8:17.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 3:11:
Matthew 3:12
Matthew 8:17
Mark 1:8
Mark 10:46
Luke 3:16
John 1:15
John 1:27
John 1:33
Acts 1:5
Acts 2:3
Acts 13:25
Acts 19:4
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