Matthew Poole and continuators on John 1:26

26 John answered them, saying , I baptize with water: but there standeth one amongst you, whom you know not ;

This was no strict Answer to their Question; which was not, how, but why he Baptized? But proper Replies, are often called Answers in Scripture, though not apposite to the Question.

I Baptize you with meer Water

but there hath stood one amongst you, [non-Latin text not transcribed], or (by an usual putting[illegible: 1 letter]of one Tense for another) there standeth one; Christ had been there with the Crowd, Luc. 3.15, 21. and possibly was amongst them still, when Iohn spake these words, whom you know not (not so much as ore tenus by Face.)

Marginal references: Matth. 3.11.