John 1:25
World English Bible (WEB)
They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
In context
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.”
24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
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 1:25 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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?