John 1:28 BSB — MannaFest

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12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ταῦτα	tauta	These things	G3778 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Βηθανίᾳ	Bēthania	Bethany	G963 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	took place	G1096 →
πέραν	peran	across	G4008 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
Ἰορδάνου	Iordanou	Jordan	G2446 →
ὅπου	hopou	where	G3699 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰωάννης	Iōannēs	John	G2491 →
βαπτίζων.¶	baptizōn	baptizing.	G907 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 3:26
So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
leads to
- John 1:7
  He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
- James 3:14–18
  But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
- John 1:15
  John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
- John 12:19
  Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”
Through
John 12:5
“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
leads to
- Luke 18:22
  On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
- Luke 12:33
  Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Mark 14:4–5
  Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
Through
John 3:23
Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
leads to
- Mark 1:4–5
  John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

John 10:40Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.John 3:23Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.Judges 7:24Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.John 3:26So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”John 1:43The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”Joshua 22:11Then the Israelites received the report: “Behold, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”Luke 3:3He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,Mark 1:5People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.John 12:5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

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