19 The Jewish authorities in Jerusalemsent some priests and Levites to Johnto ask him, "Who are you?"
20 John did not refuse to answer, but spoke out openly and clearly, saying: "I am not the Messiah."
21 Ml 4.5;Dt 18.15,18; Si 48.10,11"Who are you, then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?"
"No, I am not," John answered.
"Are you the Prophet?"1.21: the Prophet: The one who was expected to appear and announce the coming of the Messiah.they asked.
"No," he replied.
22 "Then tell us who you are," they said. "We have to take an answer back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
23 Is 40.3(LXX)John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah:
"I am ‘the voice of someone shouting in the desert:
Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!’"
24 The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees, 25 then1.25: The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees, then; or Those who had been sent were Pharisees; they.asked John, "If you are not the Messiah nor Elijahnor the Prophet, why do you baptize?"
26 Johnanswered, "I baptize with water, but among you stands the one you do not know. 27 He is coming after me, but I am not good enough even to untie his sandals."
28 All this happened in Bethanyon the east side of the Jordan River, where Johnwas baptizing.
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Jerusalem
Hoje: Jerusalem, Israel
ἹερουσαλήμHierousalēmיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫םyerushalaim
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
John the Baptist, son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, preached repentance in the wilderness, baptized Jesus in the Jordan, and was beheaded by order of Herod (Matthew 3:1).
Elijah the Tishbite, a prophet in Israel in the days of Ahab, confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and went up by a whirlwind into heaven (2 Kings 2:11).
Isaiah, son of Amoz, was the prophet who had a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He sent King Hezekiah the Lord’s answer to the prayer about Sennacherib king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:20).
Elijah the Tishbite, a prophet in Israel in the days of Ahab, confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and went up by a whirlwind into heaven (2 Kings 2:11).
John the Baptist, son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, preached repentance in the wilderness, baptized Jesus in the Jordan, and was beheaded by order of Herod (Matthew 3:1).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
John the Baptist, son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, preached repentance in the wilderness, baptized Jesus in the Jordan, and was beheaded by order of Herod (Matthew 3:1).