John 1:27 (WEB)
He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
Fathers and councils · 44
Origen
“Another is made manifest by that John who wrote the Gospel, when, speaking in the person of John the Baptist, he said, “There standeth one among you whom ye know not; He it is who cometh after me.”” — editor's note: Cf. John i. 26, 27.
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“For some such meaning seems to be indicated by John the Baptist, when he said to the multitude in the bodily absence of Jesus, “There standeth one among you whom ye know not: He it is who cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.”” — editor's note: Cf. John i. 26, 27.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…is the reason why St. John acknowledged Christ’s priority, that He, Who is His own Father’s eternal Power, may be presented as on that account duly preferred.” — editor's note: The explanation of St. John Baptist’s words in the Fourth Gospel is to be found, indeed, in the same Gospel (i. 27) and in the other three Gospels. See Matt.…
Read the whole comment“He was a man, of whom it was said: “There cometh a man after me, Whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”” — editor's note: S. John i. 27.
Read the whole comment“And then, when he was questioned whether he were perchance himself the Christ, he answered: “I baptize you with water, but a stronger than I shall come, Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. iii. 11; S. Luke iv. 16; S. John i. 26, 27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Whence he, the humble, who said that he was not worthy to unloose His shoe’s latchet, is not driven out, but standeth and heareth Him, and rejoiceth greatly because of the Bridegroom’s voice; not because of his own, lest the foot of pride come against him, and he be driven out, and be not able to stand.…” — editor's note: John i. 27, iii. 29.
Read the whole comment“In like manner righteous Abel was preferred before the elder brother; so to Ismael Isaac; so to Esau, though born before him, his twin brother Jacob; so also…” — editor's note: John i. 27.
Read the whole comment“…being priests and Levites, had been sent, supposing that he was the very Christ, but he said that he was not, and gave forth a testimony concerning the Lord: a testimony respecting which if they chose to make a confession, they would teach themselves by what authority as the Christ He was doing those things; which…” — editor's note: John i. 19–27.
Read the whole comment“Even to saying that he “was not worthy to loose the latchet of His shoes.”” — editor's note: John i. 27.
Read the whole comment“He was filled with that light who said, “I am not the Christ; but He cometh after me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”” — editor's note: John i. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“(Because he had borne testimony to Christ, and had said, I am not the Christ, but He.” — editor's note: John i. 20, 27.
Read the whole comment“…born, that Simeon by the Holy Spirit recognized Him; that Anna the widow, a prophetess, also recognized Him; that John, who baptized Him, recognized Him; that Zacharias, being filled with the Holy Ghost, said many things; that Mary herself received the Holy Ghost to conceive the Lord.” — editor's note: John i. 26–34.
Read the whole comment“See how the lamps submits itself to the Day.” — editor's note: John i. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“…Bridegroom, who both recognized Him in the Holy Spirit, and preached Him in His absence, and pointed Him out when He was present to the recognition of others;—I say nothing of these, as it might be replied that He ought not to have prayed for such when dead, who had gone hence with their great merits, and having met…” — editor's note: Chap. i. 19–36, and iii. 26–36.
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John Chrysostom
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Read the whole comment““But how doth he who said, ‘whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose,’ now call himself His ‘friend’?”” — editor's note: c. i. 27
Read the whole comment“So likewise John: “I am not meet to loose the latchet of His shoe;”because of this he was the “friend of the Bridegroom,” and the hand which he affirmed to be unworthy to touch His shoes, this did Christ draw unto His own head.” — editor's note: Mark i. 7; Luke iii. 16; John i. 27, iii. 29.
Read the whole comment“Didst thou not say, “I am not meet to loose the latchet of His shoe?”” — editor's note: John i. 27.
Read the whole comment“For of Him John had said, “I am not worthy to loose the latchet of His shoe;” and, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world;” and, “This is the Son of God;”and, “He that cometh from above is above all;”and, “His fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor.”” — editor's note: John i. 27, 29, 34.
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Tertullian
“…prophecy—so completely failed, after the transfer of the whole Spirit to the Lord, that he presently sent to inquire whether He whom he had himself preached, whom he had pointed out when coming to him, were “HE.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 11, 12; John i. 6–36.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And what is the Latchet of the shoe, which thou John who baptizest Jesus mayest not loose? thou who art of the desert, and hast no food, the new Elias, the more than Prophet, inasmuch as thou sawest Him of Whom thou didst prophesy, thou Mediator of the Old and New Testaments.” — editor's note: John i. 27.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“I am worthless, and the least; but “after me there comes One who is before me”—after me, indeed, in time, but before me by reason of the inaccessible and unutterable light of divinity.” — editor's note: John i. 27.
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Clement of Alexandria
“This, then, is the type of “the law and the prophets which were until John;” while he, though speaking more perspicuously as no longer prophesying, but pointing out as now present, Him, who was proclaimed symbolically from the beginning, nevertheless said, “I am not worthy to loose the latchet of the Lord’s shoe.”” — editor's note: Mark i. 7; Luke iii. 16; John i. 27.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“This was also made plain in the Gospel according to John: “And John answered them, I indeed baptize with water, but there standeth One in the midst of you whom ye know not: He it is of whom I said, The man that cometh after me is made before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.”” — editor's note: John i. 26, 27.
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Catena Aurea on John
- OrigenCatena Aurea on John
The questions of the priests and Levites being answered, another mission comes from the Pharisees: And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. So far as it is allowable to form a conjecture from the discourse…
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Or, those very same priests and Levites were of the Pharisees, and, because they could not undermine him by blandishments, began accusing, after they had compelled him to say what he was not. And they asked him,…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
A saint, even when perversely questioned, is never diverted from the pursuit of goodness. Thus John to the words of envy opposes the words of life: John answered them, saying, I indeed baptize with water.
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on John
For how would the question, Why then baptizest thou, be replied to in any other way, than by setting forth the carnal nature of his own baptism?
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
John baptizeth not with the Spirit, but with water; not being able to remit sins, he washes the bodies of the baptized with water, but not their souls with pardon. Why then doth he baptize, when he doth not remit…
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One among you. It was fitting that Christ should mix with the people, and be one of the many, shewing every where His humility. Whom ye know not; i. e. not, in the most absolute and certain sense; not, who He is, and…
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In His low estate He was not seen; and therefore the candle was lighted.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Or it was, that our Lord was in the midst of the Pharisees; and they not knowing Him. For they thought that they knew the Scriptures, and therefore, inasmuch as our Lord was pointed out there, He was in the midst of…
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Or thus; Having said, I indeed baptize with water, in answer to the question, Why baptizest thou then?—to the next, If thou be not Christ? he replies by declaring the preexistent substance of Christ; that it was of…
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As if he said, Do not think that every thing is contained in my baptism; for if my baptism were perfect, another would not come after me with another baptism. This baptism of mine is but an introduction to the other,…
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Made before me, i. e. preferred before me. He comes after me, that is, He is born after me; He is made before me, that is, He is preferred to me.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
But lest thou shouldest think this to be the result of comparison, he immediately shews it to be a superiority beyond all comparison; Whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose: as if He said, He is so much…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
To have pronounced himself worthy even of unloosing His shoe’s latchet, he would have been thinking too much of himself.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
Or thus: It was a law of the old dispensation, that, if a man refused to take the woman, who of right came to him, to wife, he who by right of relationship came next to be the husband, should unloose his shoe. Now in…
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The place has been understood not amiss thus by a certain person1; I am not of such importance, as that for my sake He should descend from this high abode, and take flesh upon Him, as it were a shoe.
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John having preached the thing concerning Christ publicly and with becoming liberty, the Evangelist mentions the place of His preaching: These things were done in Bethany beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. For…
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on John
Or we must suppose two Bethanies; one over Jordan, the other on this side, not far from Jerusalem, the Bethany where Lazarus was raised from the dead.
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He mentions this too for another reason, viz. that as He was relating events which had only recently happened, He might, by a reference to the place, appeal to the testimony of those who were present and saw them.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
The meaning of Bethany is, house of obedience; by which it is intimated to us, that all must approach to baptism, through the obedience of faith.
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Bethabara means house of preparation; which agreeth with the baptism of Him, who was making ready a people prepared for the Lord. (c.25. et seq.). Jordan, again, means, “their descent.” Now what is this river but our…
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Gregory the Great on John 1:24–28 (4) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in Origen on John 1:24–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus V.12.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 28.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 16.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.