John 1:22

Bible in Basic English 1965

So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.

John 1:21

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

John 1:23

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.