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John 1:25
And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
John 1:25 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 1:25 in other translations
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
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In context
22 They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.
24 And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
26 John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
27 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.
28 These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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