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John Chapter 1 verse 37 Holy Bible

ASV John 1:37

And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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BBE John 1:37

Hearing what he said, the two disciples went after Jesus.
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DARBY John 1:37

And the two disciples heard him speaking, and followed Jesus.
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KJV John 1:37

And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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WEB John 1:37

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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YLT John 1:37

and the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 37. - And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed - became followers of - Jesus. This event, if not profoundly symbolic (as Godet says), is typical of the whole process which has gone on in augmenting rapidity from that day to this. If Jesus were what John said, if they were able on his showing to grasp this much concerning the Lord, they would find in him what John could never be to them. John might awaken the sense of sin, peril, shame, and fear; he had no power to allay it. The lonely Christ has as yet not called one disciple into his fellowship, but as Lamb of God he has power to draw all men to himself. The word now spoken was enough. It divided the bond which up to this time had united the disciples to John, and made them conspicuous forever in the group which "follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth." "Primae origines ecclcsiae Christianae" (Bengel).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(37) The disciples understand the words as the teacher meant them. There is no word cutting the link between himself and them; that would have been hard to speak, hard to hear. There is no word bidding them follow Jesus; that cannot be needed.