John 1:25

25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

John 1:25 In-Context

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

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.

27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”