Teks -- John 1:30 (NET)

1:30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

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Robertson: Joh 1:30 - Of whom

Of whom ( huper hou ).

Not peri , but huper . "On behalf of whom."John points to Jesus as he speaks: "This is he."There he is. See Joh 1:15 for discussion of these words of John.

Vincent: Joh 1:30 - Of whom

Of whom ( περὶ οὗ )

i.e., " concerning whom;" but the proper reading is ὑπὲρ οὗ, " on behalf of whom;" in vindication of .

Vincent: Joh 1:30 - A man

A man ( ἀνὴρ )

Three words are used in the New Testament for man : ἄῤῥην , or ἄρσην , ἀνήρ , and ἄνθρωπος . Ἄρσην marks merely the sexual distinction , male (Rom 1:27; Rev 12:5, Rev 12:13). Ἁνήρ denotes the man as distinguished from the woman , as male or as a husband (Act 8:12; Mat 1:16), or from a boy (Mat 14:21). Also man as endowed with courage, intelligence, strength, and other noble attributes (1Co 13:11; Eph 4:13; Jam 3:2).

Ἄνθρωπος is generic, without distinction of sex, a human being (Joh 16:21), though often used in connections which indicate or imply sex, as Mat 19:10; Mat 10:35. Used of mankind (Mat 4:4), or of the people (Mat 5:13, Mat 5:16; Mat 6:5, Mat 6:18; Joh 6:10). Of man as distinguished from animals or plants (Mat 4:19; 2Pe 2:16), and from God, Christ as divine and angels (Mat 10:32; Joh 10:33; Luk 2:15). With the notion of weakness leading to sin, and with a contemptuous sense (1Co 2:5; 1Pe 4:2; Joh 5:12; Rom 9:20). The more honorable and noble sense thus attaches to ἀνήρ rather than to ἄνθρωπος . Thus Herodotus says that when the Medes charged the Greeks, they fell in vast numbers, so that it was manifest to Xerxes that he had many men combatants (ἄνθρωποι ) but few warriors (ἄνθρωποι ) vii., 210. So Homer: " O friends, be men (ἀνέρες ), and take on a stout heart" (" Iliad," v., 529). Ἁνήρ is therefore used here of Jesus by the Baptist with a sense of dignity. Compare ἄνθρωπος , in Joh 1:6, where the word implies no disparagement, but is simply indefinite. In John ἀνήρ has mostly the sense of husband (Joh 4:16-18). See Joh 6:10.

Calvin: Joh 1:30 - This is he of whom I said

30.This is he of whom I said He comprehends every thing in a few words, when he declares that Christ is the person who, he said, was to be preferred to him; for hence it follows that John is nothing more than a herald sent on his account; and hence again it is evident that Christ is the Messiah. Three things are here stated; for when he says that a man cometh after him, he means that he himself was before him in the order of time, to prepare the way for Christ, according to the testimony of Malachi,

Behold, I send my messenger before my face, (Mal 3:1.)

Again, when he says that he was preferred to himself, this relates to the glory with which God adorned his Son, when he came into the world to fulfill the office of a Redeemer. At last, the reason is added, which is, that Christ is far superior in dignity to John the Baptist. That honor, therefore, which the Father bestowed upon him was not accidental, but was due to his eternal majesty. But of this expression, he was preferred to me, because he was before me, I have already Spoken. ³⁷

TSK: Joh 1:30

Joh 1:15, Joh 1:27; Luk 3:16

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Poole: Joh 1:30 - See Poole on "Joh 1:15"

And (saith he) this is he of whom I said, (as Joh 1:15 ), He cometh after me in order of time and ministry, but is more excellent than I am.

See Poole on "Joh 1:15" .

Gill: Joh 1:30 - This is he, of whom it is said // After me cometh a man

This is he, of whom it is said,.... Either the day before, as in Joh 1:27, or some time before that, Joh 1:15, when he first began to baptize, even before Christ came to be baptized by him, and before he personally knew him; see Mat 3:11.

After me cometh a man; not a mere man, but the man God's fellow: and this is said, not because he was now a grown man, or to show the truth of his human nature; but seems to be a common Hebraism, and is all one as if it had been said, "after me cometh one", or a certain person: for the sense of this phrase, and what follows; see Gill on Joh 1:15.