John 1:24
22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
Then the Pharisees who had been sent
25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the Pharisees who had been sent
- KJV
- And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
- WEB
- The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
- ASV
- And they had been sent from the Pharisees.
- DARBY
- And they were sent from among the Pharisees.
- BLB
- And ones having been sent were from the Pharisees,
- ÅB
- Og de som var utsendt, var fariseere,
- OTB
- Nå hadde utsendinger blitt sendt fra fariseerne for å spørre Johannes.
- B1930
- Og de som var utsendt, var fariseere,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 23:13–15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
Read in contextLuke 11:39–44
“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
Read in contextLuke 11:53
As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,
Read in contextJohn 3:1–2
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
Read in contextLuke 7:30
But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
Read in contextLuke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
Read in contextJohn 7:47–49
“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.
Read in contextMatthew 23:26
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
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