SinaiJohn 1:25
World English Bible
They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
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John 1:25 in other translations
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?
John 1:25 in context
- 23He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
- 24The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
- 25They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
- 26John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
- 27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”