26John answered them, saying, 'I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,


In Context

23 He said, 'I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

24 And those sent were of the Pharisees,

25 and they questioned him and said to him, 'Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

26 John answered them, saying, 'I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

28 These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

John 1:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:26"I baptize with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them saying, I baptise with water. In the midst of you stands, whom ye do not know,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, saying: I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, |I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:26John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there stands one among you, whom you know not;