World English Bible
John 1:25
“They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
Verse in context — John 1
23
He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said.
24
The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
25
They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?
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John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
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He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen.
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