22Finally they said, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"


In Context

19 Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

20 He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, "I am not the Christ. "

21 They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

22 Finally they said, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.' "

24 Now some Pharisees who had been sent

John 1:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22They 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?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:22They said then to him, 'Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:22Then said they to him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What say you of yourself?