Mark 1:7
Good News Translation
He announced to the people, "The man who will come after me is much greater than I am. I am not good enough even to bend down and untie his sandals.

New Revised Standard Version
He proclaimed, “The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals.

Contemporary English Version
John also told the people, "Someone more powerful is going to come. And I am not good enough even to stoop down and untie his sandals.

New American Bible
And this is what he proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

Matthew 3:11,14 I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire. . . .

Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;

Luke 7:6,7 And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof. . . .

John 1:27 The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.

John 3:28-31 You yourselves do bear me witness that I said that I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him. . . .

Acts 13:25 And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
6And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey. 7And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. 8I have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:41
And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.

Mark 1:6
And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:8
I have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

Luke 3:16
John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;

John 1:27
The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.

Acts 13:25
And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

Acts 19:4
Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.

Mark 1:6
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