John 1:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Matt 11:14 : 14 If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
  • Matt 16:14 : 14 They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
  • John 1:25 : 25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
  • John 7:40 : 40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."
  • Deut 18:15-18 : 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; 16 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. 17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 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.
  • Mal 4:5 : 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
  • Matt 11:9-9 : 9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. 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.' 11 Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
  • Matt 17:10-12 : 10 His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" 11 Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things, 12 but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."
  • Luke 1:17 : 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 1:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

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

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

  • John 1:22-23
    2 verses
    85%

    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."

  • John 1:25-27
    3 verses
    83%

    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."

  • John 3:28
    77%

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

  • Mark 8:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

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

    29 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."

  • Matt 11:3
    74%

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

  • Luke 22:67
    73%

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

  • Matt 16:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    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?"

  • Luke 9:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

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

    20 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God."

  • Luke 7:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    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?'"

  • John 1:30-31
    2 verses
    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."

  • Acts 13:25
    71%

    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 9:9
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 1:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 He said to them, What manner 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 girt with a belt of leather about his loins. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

  • Mark 6:15
    70%

    15 But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets."

  • 1 Kgs 18:8
    70%

    8 He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].

  • Luke 22:58
    70%

    58 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"

  • Mark 9:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

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

    12 He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

  • Luke 7:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

    27 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.'

  • Matt 11:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

    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 3:26
    69%

    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."

  • John 1:33
    69%

    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 14:61
    69%

    61 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

  • Luke 20:7
    69%

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

  • John 1:8
    69%

    8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

  • Mark 1:7
    69%

    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.

  • Matt 3:3
    68%

    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 18:5
    68%

    5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I AM." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

  • Luke 20:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    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?"

  • John 18:17
    68%

    17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."

  • John 18:25
    68%

    25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."

  • Mark 11:30
    68%

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

  • Luke 22:70
    68%

    70 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I AM."

  • Matt 3:14
    67%

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

  • John 18:34
    67%

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

  • Matt 26:70
    67%

    70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."

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