and when he is went out from there, did the scribes and the Pharisees begin to stand up to him and him to stand questions over several matters with bitterness;
because the Sadducees say, that there is there is not any resurrection of the dead ones, not any angel, nor any spirit; the Pharisees however are confessing to both.
has he said: I am a voice of one who cry out in the wilderness: make straight the way of the L-rd, just as Isaiah the prophet has said. (Yeshayah 40, 3.)
and they have him asked, and said to him: so why you are immersing in a mikveh, if you (SG) are not the Moshiach, also not Eliyahu, and not the prophet?