John 1:25

25 They asked him, ¹“Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? ”

John 1:25 In-Context

23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord, ’ as the prophet Isaiah said. ”

24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. )

25 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? ”

26 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,

27 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie. ”

Cross References

• 1. 1:25 Matt. 3:6; Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3, 7