King James Version
John 1:28 in the King James Version says “These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.” — study this verse from John chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.”
John 1:28 · KJV
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. taketh away: or, beareth
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“were done”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
“baptizing”
G907to immerse, submerge; to make whelmed (i.e., fully wet); used only (in the new testament) of ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordi
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