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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Referenced Verses

  • 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.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    20and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.'

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

    23He 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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    25and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

    26John 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,

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

  • John 3:28
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    28ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

  • Mark 8:28-29
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    28And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.'

    29And he saith to them, `And ye -- who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering saith to him, `Thou art the Christ.'

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    3said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'

  • Luke 22:67
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    67saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;

  • Matt 16:14-15
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    14and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'

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  • Luke 9:19-20
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    19And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

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    19and John having called near a certain two of his disciples, sent unto Jesus, saying, `Art thou he who is coming, or for another do we look?'

    20And having come near to him, the men said, `John the Baptist sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he who is coming, or for another do we look?'

  • John 1:30-31
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    30this 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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  • Acts 13:25
    71%

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    9others said -- `This is he;' and others -- `He is like to him;' he himself said, -- `I am `he'.'

  • 2 Kgs 1:7-8
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    7And he saith unto them, `What `is' the fashion of the man who hath come up to meet you, and speaketh unto you these words?'

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  • Mark 6:15
    70%

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  • 1 Kgs 18:8
    70%

    8And he saith to him, `I `am'; go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah.'

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    11And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first.

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  • Luke 7:26-27
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    26`But what have ye gone forth to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet:

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    9`But what went ye out to see? -- a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet,

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  • John 3:26
    69%

    26and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

  • John 1:33
    69%

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    61and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, `Art thou the Christ -- the Son of the Blessed?'

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    7And they answered, that they knew not whence `it was',

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    8that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.

  • Mark 1:7
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  • John 18:25
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  • Mark 11:30
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    30the baptism of John -- from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.'

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    70And he denied before all, saying, `I have not known what thou sayest.'