John 1:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They asked him, “Why, then, are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

Deuteronomy 18:15

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.

Acts 5:28

saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you are determined to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Matthew 21:23

When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

Matthew 3:6

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

Matthew 21:11

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

John 1:24

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.