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Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” (NASB) John 1:22 And John responds with a quote from Isaiah 40:1-3,
He said, “I am A VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.” (NASB) John 1:23 Finally, John had clearly said that he was not Messiah, Elijah, or the Prophet. They had been
waiting for this answer, and now they asked the key question, the one that they had been wanting to ask.
But it was one of the leaders from the Pharisees who asked,
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” (NASB) John 1:24-25 The Greek language says that they were being sent repeatedly. This was not the first time these religious
leaders had come and asked John questions. Apparently, they knew that John would deny being the Messiah, Elijah,
or the Prophet. The trap had been set and they asked their question.
The question they wanted to ask this time was, “Why are you baptizing?” That is,
where are your credentials for preaching and baptizing? Where is your seminary degree? Where is your diploma
and your training? John was not a Pharisee or a Sadducee. He was not one of them. He did not come through them. |
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