While some imagined that the prophet himself was the Messiah, John declared that the mission of Christ was so much greater than his own that he would be unworthy as a slave, to loose the latchet of his shoes.
John answered by saying to them all, I baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comes, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.
He preached, saying, There comes one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
And he preached, saying There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
And because he would not touch a shoe-latchet of the spoils, his descendants cast their shoe upon Edom.
To loosen the shoe latchet or sandal thong, or to carry the shoes of another, "was a menial office betokening great inferiority on the part of the person performing it.
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight; for there standeth one among you whom ye know not; and he is mightier than I, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Probably this was the same kind of shoe that was worn in the days of John, when he said of our Lord, "Whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Their shoes were made of undressed camel's leather, bound round the edge with yellow leather, and fastened by a latchet made of the same.
There stands one in the midst of you, whom ye know not; (27)he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.
And he preached, saying: There comes after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.
And he ate locusts and wild honey, and preached saying: a stronger then I cometh after me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.
There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.
The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.
John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose.
The same is he that shall venturus est, qui ante me come after me, who is factus est: cuius ego non sum preferred before me: the dignus ut solvam eius latchet of whose shoe I am not corrigiam calceamenti.
They're invariably brief, and they invariably wind up with this hospitable apophthegm, 'Remember the string's on the latchetof the door whenever you choose to pull it.
I stole out of the hole in the wall and crouched down till my eyes rested at the great latchet hole through which the tang of leather to lift the bolt ordinarily goes.
And at the mention of key-holes I imagined that I saw my father's eyes rest on the latchet crevice.
Would not He, whose origin was said to be heavenly, be more withdrawn from the things of earth, than the man who said he was not worthy to unloose the latchet of His sandal?
By speaking of the latchet of the sandal, he clearly intimates that this Person is among them in a visible form.
John said he was not worthy to unloose the shoe-latchet of his friend, so great, so kingly, so worthy was that friend.
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
As to his work, he was only baptizing with water, he was not worthy to loose the latchetof his Master's shoe.
He it is, who coming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
In the midst of you standeth One whom ye know not, even He that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.
There cometh after me He that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "latchet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: button; fastener; girth; lacing
