John 1:25

Contemporary English Version 1995

They asked him, “Why are you baptizing people, if you are not the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet?”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 18:18

So when I want to speak to them, I will choose one of them to be a prophet like you. I will give my message to that prophet, who will tell the people exactly what I have said.

Deuteronomy 18:15

Instead, he will choose one of your own people to be a prophet just like me, and you must do what that prophet says.

Acts 5:28

“We told you plainly not to teach in the name of Jesus. But look what you have done! You have been teaching all over Jerusalem, and you are trying to blame us for his death.”

Matthew 21:23

Jesus had gone into the temple and was teaching when the chief priests and the leaders of the people came up to him. They asked, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

Matthew 3:6

They told how sorry they were for their sins, and he baptized them in the river.

Matthew 21:11

The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

John 1:24

Some Pharisees had also been sent to John.