Luke 3:15

World English Bible (2000)

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

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  • John 1:19-28 : 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. 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. 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
  • John 3:28-29 : 28 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
  • John 10:24 : 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

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  • Matt 11:2-3
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    2Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

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

  • John 3:24-26
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    24For John was not yet thrown into prison.

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

    26They 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."

  • John 1:25-26
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    25They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

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

  • Matt 21:25-26
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    25The 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?'

    26But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."

  • Luke 20:4-6
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    4the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"

    5They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'

    6But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

  • Luke 3:16
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    16John 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 7:29
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    29When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.

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

    25As 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.'

  • Mark 11:30-32
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    30The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

    31They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

    32If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

  • Luke 3:10
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    10The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"

  • Matt 3:3
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    3For 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 7:18-20
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    18The disciples of John told him about all these things.

    19John, 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?"

    20When 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?'"

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

  • Luke 7:24
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    24When 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?

  • Mark 1:3-5
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    3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

    4John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

    5All 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 11:7
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    7As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

  • Luke 3:3-4
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    3He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

    4As 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.

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

  • Mark 1:7-9
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    7He 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.

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

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

  • Acts 19:3-4
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    3He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

    4Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."

  • John 1:19
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    19This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

  • John 1:31
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    31I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

  • Matt 3:5-6
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    5Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

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

  • Luke 9:7
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    7Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

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

  • John 3:28
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    28You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

  • John 1:33
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    33I 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 3:11
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    11I 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.

  • Matt 17:13
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    13Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

  • Mark 6:20
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    20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

  • Luke 1:66
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    66All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.