John 1:25

25 then ^[a] asked John, "If you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?"

John 1:25 In-Context

23 John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah: "I am "the voice of someone shouting in the desert: Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!' "

24 The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,

25 then asked John, "If you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?"

26 John answered, "I baptize with water, but among you stands the one you do not know.

27 He is coming after me, but I am not good enough even to untie his sandals."

Footnotes

• [a] The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees, then; [or] Those who had been sent were Pharisees; they.