Oh now that there is funny I don't care who you are. You relying on New Testament Greek over Old testament Hebrew?
There is nothing complex about John’s words, and the words in English Bibles are often oblique to the meaning of Hebrew words.
Eretz for example, can mean many different things, and we are not always sure that the English translators got it right.
Actually, it is the very same problem as we have going from Hebrew to Greek, including the translator’s lack of familiarity with the Hebrew customs.