John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

 (i) On his fullness we all have drawn. The word that John uses for fullness is a great word; it is pleroma ( G4138) , and it means the sum total of all that is in God. It is a word which Paul uses often. In Colossians 1:19 he says that all pleroma ( G4138) dwelt in Christ. In Colossians 2:9 he says in Christ there dwelt the pleroma ( G4138) of deity in a bodily form. He meant that in Jesus there dwelt the totality of the wisdom, the power, the love of God. Just because of that Jesus is inexhaustible. A man can go to Jesus with any need and find that need supplied. A man can go to Jesus with any ideal and find that ideal realized. In Jesus the man in love with beauty will find the supreme beauty. In Jesus the man to whom life is the search for knowledge will find the supreme revelation. In Jesus the man who needs courage will find the pattern and the secret of being brave. In Jesus the man who feels that he cannot cope with life will find the Master of life and the power to live. In Jesus the man who is conscious of his sin will find the forgiveness for his sin and the strength to be good. In Jesus the pleroma ( G4138) , the fullness of God, all that is in God, what Westcott called "the spring of divine life," becomes available to men. 