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Joh 1:19. Οἰ ἰουδᾶιοι, the Jews) Matthew, Mark, and Luke rarely employ the appellation Jews; John most frequently: no doubt the cause is, they supposed, as their first readers, Jews: John, believers of the Gentiles.-ἐξ ιἑροσολύμων, from Jerusalem) that seat of religion.-ιἑρεῖς καὶ λευίτας, priests and Levites) With the testimony of John to the people is interwoven his testimony to the rulers. This embassy, sent forty days at least after the baptism of Jesus [to allow for the forty days’ temptation subsequent to the baptism], indicates, that the preaching of John began not at a long interval before the baptism of Jesus. Otherwise the embassy would have been sent earlier.-ἐρωτήσωσιν, that they should ask) in the public name, ch. Joh 5:33 [Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth].-σὺ τὶς εἶ; who art thou?) with that baptism of thine, Joh 1:25. [Why baptizeth thou then?]