John 1:22

World English Bible (2000)

They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

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  • 2 Sam 24:13 : 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

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  • John 1:19-21
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    85%

    19 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

    20 He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ."

    21 They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

  • John 1:23-26
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    85%

    23 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

    24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

    25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

    26 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

  • Matt 11:3
    77%

    3 and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"

  • Luke 7:18-20
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    18 The disciples of John told him about all these things.

    19 John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"

    20 When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"

  • Mark 8:28
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    28 They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."

  • Matt 3:3
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    3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."

  • John 3:26
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    26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."

  • Matt 16:14-15
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    14 They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

    15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

  • 2 Kgs 1:7-8
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    7 He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?"

    8 They answered him, "He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist." He said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

  • John 3:28
    75%

    28 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

  • Luke 9:19
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    19 They answered, "'John the Baptizer,' but others say, 'Elijah,' and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again."

  • Mark 1:2-3
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    2 As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.

    3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

  • John 8:25
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    25 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

  • John 18:34
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    34 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

  • John 9:9
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    9 Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

  • Mark 11:29-30
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    29 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

    30 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

  • Luke 20:2-4
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    2 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

    3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

    4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"

  • Matt 21:25
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    25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

  • John 1:30-31
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    72%

    30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'

    31 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

  • Luke 7:27
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    27 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

  • Luke 7:24
    72%

    24 When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

  • Luke 3:4
    72%

    4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

  • Luke 20:7
    72%

    7 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.

  • John 18:21
    72%

    21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

  • Mark 9:11
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    11 They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

  • John 1:33
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    33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Matt 11:10
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    10 For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

  • John 18:7
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    7 Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

  • Acts 19:3
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    3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

  • Mark 1:7
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    7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

  • John 1:6
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    6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

  • Acts 13:25
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    25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

  • John 18:5
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    5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

  • John 1:15
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    15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

  • Luke 22:67
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    67 "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,

  • Luke 22:70
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    70 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."