John 1:25
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
In context
23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent
25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
John 1:25 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
- KJV King James Version
- And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
- WEB World English Bible
- They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and they questioned him and said to him, 'Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And they asked him, and said to him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou art not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?