27. Ipse est qui post me 27. The same is he that shall venturus est, qui ante me come after me, who is factus est: cuius ego non sum preferred before me: the dignus ut solvam eius latchet of whose shoe I am not corrigiam calceamenti. worthy to loose. 27. Many authorities omit the words: “The same is,” and also: “who is preferred before me,” and then connect with the preceding thus: “But there hath stood One in the midst of you whom you know not, even He that shall come (rather, that cometh) after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.” So Tisch., Treg., Westcott, and Hort, and the Rev. Vers. It is not easy to explain why the words are wanting in so many MSS., if they were written by St. John; certainly it is easier to believe that they were inserted by some scribe to bring the verse into closer resemblance to 15 and 30. In the latter part of the verse, the Baptist declares himself unworthy to perform the lowest menial service for Christ. To loose the sandals of their masters was the business of slaves; yet for even such service to Christ the great Prophet confesses himself unfit. 28. Haec in Bethania facta 28. These things were done in sunt trans Iordanem, ubi erat Bethania beyond the Jordan, Ioannes baptizans. where John was baptizing. 28. *Bethania*, here mentioned, was situated in Peraea, east of the Jordan, and must be carefully distinguished from the town of the same name, in which Lazarus lived, about two miles east of Jerusalem, but west of the Jordan. Many ancient authorities read Bethabara, instead of Bethania. Origen, though admitting that nearly all the MSS. of his time read Bethania, changed it, on topographical grounds, for Bethabara, in his edition of our Gospel. Bethania, according to some, means the house of a ship (בית אניה), while Bethabara means the house of a ferry‐boat (בית עברה); so that, perhaps, they may have been different names for the same place on the Jordan. 29. Altera die vidit Ioannes 29. The next day John saw Iesum venientem ad se, et ait: Jesus coming to him, and he Ecce Agnus Dei, ecce qui saith: Behold the lamb of God, tollit peccatum mundi. behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.