John 1:25
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.’”
24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent
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.
27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
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
- asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
- KJV
- And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
- WEB
- They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
- ASV
- And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?
- DARBY
- And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
- BLB
- and they asked him and said to him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
- ÅB
- og de spurte ham: Hvorfor døper du da, når du ikke er Messias, og heller ikke Elias, og heller ikke profeten?
- OTB
- De spurte ham, “Hvorfor døper du da hvis du ikke er Messias, heller ikke Elia, heller ikke Profeten?”
- B1930
- og de spurte ham: Hvorfor døper du da, når du ikke er Messias, og heller ikke Elias, og heller ikke profeten?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 18:15
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
Read in contextJohn 1:20–22
He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”
Read in contextActs 5:28
“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
Read in contextMatthew 21:23
When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”
Read in contextActs 4:5–7
The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
Read in contextDaniel 9:24–26
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
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