You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
Christ went about weary in His journeyings to do good to souls. He left Jerusalem where His words made noise but did little good; the country received Him better because the great men there had less hold. His disciples stuck with Him through it all, following the ark whithersoever it moved.
AI summary
Commenting on John 3:22-36
Verse 28. Bear me witness. You remember that at first I told you I was not the Messiah. As he had been witness to Jesus--as he came for no other end but to point him out to the Jews, they ought not to suppose that he was his superior. It was but reasonable to expect that Christ himself would be more successful than his forerunner.
28. You are witnesses to me. John expostulates with his disciples that they did not give credit to his statements. He had often warned them that he was not the Christ; and, therefore, it only remained that he should be a servant and subject to the Son of God along with others.