John Chapter 3 verse 30 Holy Bible

John 3 : 30 Bible Verse Songs

• More About Jesus by Blackwood Brothers
• More Of You by Colton Dixon
• A Little More Jesus by Chris August
• Let It Be Jesus by River Valley Worship
• Empty Me by James Fortune
• Until The Whole World Hears by Casting Crowns
• Less of Me by Elias Dummer
• Empty Me by William Murphy
• More Of You by Jared Reynolds
• More of You by VOUS Worship
• More Of You by Hillsong Young & Free
• Nobody But Jesus by Casting Crowns + Matthew West
• Let Me Decrease by Thomas Muglia
• I Must Become Less by Mitch Wong + David & Nicole Binion

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - He must - by a Divine necessity of things (cf. vers. 7, 14; John 9:4; John 10:16; John 20:9; Revelation 1:1), he must - increase; augment in power and following and great joy. He must win eventually all hearts. His enemies must become the footstool of his feet. His is the beginning of an eternal blessedness. I must decrease; not become annihilated, though through the very completion of the purpose of my calling of God, my scope must, by the nature of the case, become narrower and smaller. Some have felt the improbability of the great prophet, the ascetic reformer, acquiescing so patiently in the diminution of his influence or the virtual cessation of the primary importance of his career. Yet this is in complete harmony with John's repeated and continuous recognition of the preparatory and transitory nature of his own work. He cannot lay down his commission, but he knows that, like prophetism, priesthood, Nazarite asceticism, and the like, it will be merged in the grander life of which he was the herald. The ministers of the New Testament all take up the same note of Divine praise and of self-depletion as they prepare the way of the Lord to human hearts. They hide themselves behind the greater glory of their Lord. However considerable their powers, they are serviceable only as they contribute to the glory, and succeed in unveiling the thee, of their Lord. There is a Johannine message still required to disturb the fleshly equanimity and to break up the narcotized sleep of the unbeliever. The stern spirit of rebuke and warning is still indispensable; yet the voice of him that cries, "Repent!" knows that his voice may fade away into faint echoes and stillness, so soon as the promises of redemption and salvation are uttered by the Divine Lord. When the absolution of grace gives the kiss of peace to the broken-hearted, the morning star fades into the dawning of the day.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) He must increase, but I must decrease.--The office of the paranymph ceases to exist when the marriage is accomplished. It must be so. So too in the interpretation. His own work was well-nigh done, but he is filled with the joy of having done his work, not with disappointment that it pales before the brightness of the work which is to follow. This is the text of the Forerunner's life. Well will it be for those followers of Christ whose lives shall be sermons on it!