John 1:25

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

Deuteronomy 18:15

"The LORD your God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your relatives. You must listen to him,

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.

Daniel 9:24-26

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Matthew 21:23

Then Jesus went into the Temple. While he was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him and asked, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Acts 4:5-7

The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes met in Jerusalem

Acts 5:28

He said, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in his name, didn't we? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to bring this man's blood on us!"

John 1:20-22

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

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Summary

And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

That christ

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That christ

John 1:20
He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

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