Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Bare witness (emarturhsen). First aorist active indicative of marturew. Another specimen of John's witness to the Messiah (John 1:7, John 1:15, John 1:19, John 1:29, John 1:35-36).
I have beheld (teqeamai). Perfect middle indicative of qeaomai, the realization of the promise of the sign (verse John 1:33) by which he should recognize the Messiah. As a matter of fact, we know that he so recognized Jesus as Messiah when he came for baptism before the Holy Spirit came (Matthew 3:14 ff.). But this sight of the Spirit descending as a dove upon Jesus at his baptism (Mark 1:10; Matthew 3:16; Luke 3:22) became permanent proof to him. John's allusion assumes the Synoptic record. The Semites regarded the dove as a symbol of the Spirit.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 1:32:
Mark 1:9
John 1:14
John 1:15
John 1:34
John 1:38
John 3:26
John 10:42
1 John 5:9
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