John 1:25

25 So they asked him, "Why then do you baptize if you aren't the Messiah, or Elijah,^[a] or the Prophet?"^[b]

John 1:25 In-Context

23 He said, "I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord -just as Isaiah the prophet said."

24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

25 So they asked him, "Why then do you baptize if you aren't the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

26 "I baptize with water," John answered them. "Someone stands among you, but you don't know [Him].

27 He is the One coming after me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to untie."

Footnotes

• [a] Mal 4:5
• [b] Dt 18:15