3:27 John replied, 1 “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. 3:28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ 2 but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’
[3:27] 1 tn Grk “answered and said.”
[3:28] 2 tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).
[3:28] sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.
