SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #96
The next day again John stood and two of his disciples. And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: "Behold the Lamb of God." And the two disciples heard him speak: and they followed Jesus. (John 1:35-37)
HUMILITY: St. John the Baptist did not seek his own glory, but the glory of Jesus Christ, whose precursor God had called him to be. Without any thought of himself, he sent his disciples to our Lord. Even as the morning-star pales and disappears before the light of the rising sun, even so was it John's desire to be extinguished when Jesus came.
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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