John 1:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Deut 18:18 : 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;
  • John 1:20-22 : 20 and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.' 21 And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.' 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?'
  • Dan 9:24-26 : 24 `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. 25 And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader `is' seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. 26 And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end `is' with a flood, and till the end `is' war, determined `are' desolations.
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'
  • Deut 18:15 : 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;
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'
  • Acts 4:5-7 : 5 And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem, 6 and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest, 7 and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 1:26
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    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,

  • John 1:19-24
    6 verses
    83%

    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.'

    21And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

    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.'

    24And those sent were of the Pharisees,

  • John 3:22-26
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    22After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

    23and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --

    24for John was not yet cast into the prison --

    25there arose then a question from the disciples of John with `some' Jews about purifying,

    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.'

  • Acts 19:3
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    3and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.'

  • Luke 20:3-4
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    78%

    3And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:

    4the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'

  • Matt 21:25
    78%

    25the baptism of John, whence was it? -- from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

  • John 1:33
    78%

    33and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

  • Mark 11:30
    78%

    30the baptism of John -- from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.'

  • John 1:31
    77%

    31and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.

  • Matt 11:3
    77%

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

  • John 3:28
    76%

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

  • Matt 3:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

    14but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!'

  • Luke 3:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;

    16John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

  • Luke 7:18-20
    3 verses
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    18And the disciples of John told him about all these things,

    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?'

  • Mark 8:28
    74%

    28And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.'

  • Mark 1:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;

    8I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

    9And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;

  • Matt 16:14
    74%

    14and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'

  • Mark 1:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

    5and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

  • Matt 3:6
    73%

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

  • John 4:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

    2(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

  • John 1:28
    73%

    28These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

  • Acts 13:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

    25and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not `he', but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of `his' feet.

  • Luke 7:29
    72%

    29And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

  • Matt 3:1
    72%

    1And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

  • Matt 3:3
    72%

    3for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'

  • Luke 9:19
    72%

    19And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

  • 1 Cor 1:15
    72%

    15that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

  • Luke 3:3
    72%

    3and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

  • Acts 1:5
    72%

    5because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'

  • Mark 6:15
    72%

    15Others said -- `It is Elijah,' and others said -- `It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

  • Matt 3:11
    71%

    11`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,