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Coming after me (opisō mou erchomenos). No article (ho) in Aleph B. John as the forerunner of the Messiah has preceded him in time, but not in rank as he instantly adds.
The latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose (hou ouk eimi axios hina lusō autou ton himanta tou hupodēmatos). Literally, “of whom I am not worthy that I unloose the latchet (see Mar 1:7 for himas) of his sandal (see Mat 3:11 for hupodēma, bound under the foot).” Only use of axios with hina in John, though used by Paul in this saying of the Baptist (Act 13:25), hikanos hina in Mat 3:8, but hikanos lusai (aorist active infinitive instead of lusō, aorist active subjunctive) in Mar 1:7 (Luk 3:16) and bastasai in Mat 3:11.