John 1:25

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So they asked John,“Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

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  • Deut 18:18 : 18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
  • John 1:20-22 : 20 He confessed– he did not deny but confessed–“I am not the Christ!” 21 So they asked him,“Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said,“I am not!”“Are you the Prophet?” He answered,“No!” 22 Then they said to him,“Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
  • Dan 9:24-26 : 24 “Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place. 25 So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times. 26 Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 The Authority of Jesus Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said,“By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
  • Deut 18:15 : 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you– from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 saying,“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name. Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood on us!”
  • Acts 4:5-7 : 5 On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family. 7 After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire,“By what power or by what name did you do this?”

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    26John answered them,“I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

  • John 1:19-24
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    19The Testimony of John the Baptist Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,“Who are you?”

    20He confessed– he did not deny but confessed–“I am not the Christ!”

    21So they asked him,“Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said,“I am not!”“Are you the Prophet?” He answered,“No!”

    22Then they said to him,“Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

    23John said,“I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

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

  • John 3:22-26
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    22Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

    23John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

    24(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

    25Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

    26So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

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    3So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

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    3He answered them,“I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:

    4John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people?”

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    25Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’

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    33And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining– this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

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    30John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people? Answer me.”

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    31I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

  • Matt 11:3
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    3“Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

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    28You yourselves can testify that I said,‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather,‘I have been sent before him.’

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  • Luke 3:15-16
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    15While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

    16John answered them all,“I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming– I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

  • Luke 7:18-20
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    18Jesus and John the Baptist John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples

    19and sent them to Jesus to ask,“Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

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    14They answered,“Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

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    4In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

    5People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

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    28These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

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    24Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

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    29(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

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    3For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken:“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

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    15so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!

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    3He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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    5For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

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    11“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.