John 1:22
Good News Translation
"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?"

Contemporary English Version
Finally, they said, "Who are you then? We have to give an answer to the ones who sent us. Tell us who you are!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?

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

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2 Samuel 24:13 And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
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? 23He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.…
Cross References
John 1:21
And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.

John 1:23
He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.

Additional Translations
So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

Therefore they said to him, "Who are you, that we might give an answer to those having sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

Then said they to him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What say you of yourself?

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

They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

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

Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

They said then to him, 'Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'
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