John 1:26

26 John answered them saying, "¹I baptize ^[a]in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

John 1:26 In-Context

24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

25 They asked him, and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

26 John answered them saying, "I baptize in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

27 "It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."

28 These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; Acts 1:5

Footnotes

• [a] The Gr here can be translated "in, with" or "by"