John 1:21
Good News Translation
"Who are you, then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No, I am not," John answered. "Are you the Prophet?" they asked. "No," he replied.

New Revised Standard Version
And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

Contemporary English Version
Then when they asked him if he were Elijah, he said, "No, I am not!" And when they asked if he were the Prophet, he also said "No!"

New American Bible
So they asked him, “What are you then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.

Art thou Elias.

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Matthew 11:14 And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

Matthew 17:10-12 And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first? . . .

Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias: that he may turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children and the incredulous to the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a perfect people.

Art thou that.

John 1:25 And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

John 7:40 Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

Deuteronomy 18:15-18 The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear: . . .

Matthew 11:9-11 But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more than a prophet. . . .

Matthew 16:14 But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
20And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the Christ. 21And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No. 22They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:15
The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:

Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Matthew 11:14
And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

Matthew 16:14
But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

Matthew 21:11
And the people said: This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.

John 1:22
They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?

John 1:25
And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

John 6:14
Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world.

John 7:40
Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

John 1:20
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