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John 1:25
They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
John 1:25 · World English Bible
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 Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"
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In context
22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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