John - 4:1 Meaning
“When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:1-3 Jesus applied himself more to preaching, which was the more excellent, 1Co 1:17, than to baptism. He would put honour upon his disciples, by employing them to baptize. He teaches us that the benefit of sacraments depends not on the hand that administers them.
“And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.”
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