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John 1:25

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?

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John 1:25 in other translations

They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

John 1:25 · World English Bible

John 1:25 in context

  1. 23He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
  2. 24And they had been sent from the Pharisees.
  3. 25And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?
  4. 26John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,
  5. 27even he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.