John 1:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

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  • Matt 11:14 : 14 and if ye are willing to receive `it', he is Elijah who was about to come;
  • Matt 16:14 : 14 and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'
  • John 1:25 : 25 and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
  • John 7:40 : 40 Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, `This is truly the Prophet;'
  • Deut 18:15-18 : 15 `A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee -- unto him ye hearken; 16 according to all that thou didst ask from Jehovah thy God, in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not add to hear the voice of Jehovah my God, and this great fire let me not see any more, and I die not; 17 and Jehovah saith unto me, They have done well that they have spoken; 18 a prophet I raise up to them, out of the midst of their brethren, like to thee; and I have given my words in his mouth, and he hath spoken unto them all that which I command him;
  • Mal 4:5 : 5 Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
  • Matt 11:9-9 : 9 `But what went ye out to see? -- a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet, 10 for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. 11 Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.
  • Matt 17:10-12 : 10 And his disciples questioned him, saying, `Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?' 11 And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, 12 and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'
  • Luke 1:17 : 17 and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

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    19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?'

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  • John 1:22-23
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    22 They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'

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

  • John 1:25-27
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    25 and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

    26 John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

    27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

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    30 this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

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  • 2 Kgs 1:7-8
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    69%

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    69%

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  • Mark 1:7
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