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They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

John 1:25 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયોહાન ૧:૨૫
તેઓએ તેને પૂછ્યું કે, ‘જો તું તે ખ્રિસ્ત, એલિયા અથવા આવનાર પ્રબોધક નથી, તો તું બાપ્તિસ્મા કેમ આપે છે?’”
हिन्दीयूहन्ना १:२५
उन्होंने उससे यह प्रश्न पूछा, “यदि तू न मसीह है, और न एलिय्याह, और न वह भविष्यद्वक्ता है, तो फिर बपतिस्मा क्यों देता है?”

In context

23He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

24The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

25They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

26John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

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