John 1:25

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Deut 18:18 : 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
  • John 1:20-22 : 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." 22 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?"
  • Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
  • Deut 18:15 : 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
  • Acts 4:5-7 : 5 It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest. 7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

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

  • John 1:19-24
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    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."

    22 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?"

    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.

  • John 3:22-26
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    22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

    23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

    24 For John was not yet thrown into prison.

    25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.

    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."

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

  • Luke 20:3-4
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    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 1:33
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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.'

  • Mark 11:30
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    30 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

  • John 1:31
    77%

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

  • Matt 11:3
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    3 and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"

  • John 3:28
    76%

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

  • Matt 3:13-14
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    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

    14 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"

  • Luke 3:15-16
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    15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

    16 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

  • Luke 7:18-20
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    75%

    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."

  • Mark 1:7-9
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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.

    8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

    9 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

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

  • Mark 1:4-5
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    4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

    5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

  • Matt 3:6
    73%

    6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

  • John 4:1-2
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    1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

    2 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),

  • John 1:28
    73%

    28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

  • Acts 13:24-25
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    24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

    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.'

  • Luke 7:29
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    29 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.

  • Matt 3:1
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    1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

  • 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."

  • Luke 9:19
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:15
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    15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

  • Luke 3:3
    72%

    3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

  • Acts 1:5
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    5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

  • Mark 6:15
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    15 But others said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets."

  • Matt 3:11
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    11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.