John 1:24

New Life Version

Those who had been sent were from the proud religious law-keepers.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

King James Version (1611)
And they which were sent, were of the Pharises.

King James Version
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

English Standard Version
(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

New American Standard Bible
And the messengers had been sent from the Pharisees.

New Century Version
Some Pharisees who had been sent asked John:

Amplified Bible
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the Pharisees who had been sent

Contemporary English Version
Some Pharisees had also been sent to John.

Complete Jewish Bible
Some of those who had been sent were P'rushim.

Darby Translation
And they were sent from among the Pharisees.

Easy-to-Read Version
These Jews were sent from the Pharisees.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe they which were sent, were of the Pharises.

George Lamsa Translation
Those who were sent were from the Pharisees.

Good News Translation
The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,

Lexham English Bible
(And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

Literal Translation
And those who had been sent were of the Pharisees.

American Standard Version
And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Bible in Basic English
Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.

Hebrew Names Version
The ones who had been sent were from the Perushim.

International Standard Version
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Etheridge Translation
But they who were sent were from the Pharishee.

Murdock Translation
And they who were sent, were of the Pharisees.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they which were sent, were of the pharisees.

English Revised Version
And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

World English Bible
The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.

Weymouth's New Testament
They were Pharisees who had been sent.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei that weren sent, weren of the Fariseis.

Update Bible Version
And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.

New English Translation
(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

New King James Version
Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.

New Living Translation
Then the Pharisees who had been sent

New Revised Standard
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they had been sent forth from among the Pharisees;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.

Revised Standard Version
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they which were sent were of the pharises.

Young's Literal Translation
And those sent were of the Pharisees,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they that were sent, were of ye Pharises.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Now the messengers were of the sect of the Pharisees, and they asked him,

THE MESSAGE
Those sent to question him were from the Pharisee party. Now they had a question of their own: "If you're neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then these religious know-it-alls

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ The Jews sent their religious leaders and men from the family group of Levi to ask John, "Who are you?" ²⁰ He told them without holding back any words, "I am not the Christ!" ²¹ They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" Then they asked, "Are you the special One Who was to come to speak for God?" John said, "No." ²² Then they asked him, "Who are you? We must tell those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" ²³ John said, "I am the voice of one crying in the desert. ‘Make the road straight for the Lord,' as the early preacher Isaiah said." ²⁴ Those who had been sent were from the proud religious law-keepers. ²⁵ They asked John again, "Then why do you baptize if you are not the Christ or Elijah or that special One Who was to come to speak for God?" ²⁶ John answered, "I baptize with water. But there is One standing among you Whom you do not know. ²⁷ He is the One Who is coming after me. I am not good enough to get down and help Him take off His shoes." ²⁸ All this happened when John was baptizing in the town of Bethany. He was on the other side of the Jordan River.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were of: John 3:1, John 3:2, John 7:47-49, Matthew 23:13-15, Matthew 23:26, Luke 7:30, Luke 11:39-44, Luke 11:53, Luke 16:14, Acts 23:8, Acts 26:5, Philippians 3:5, Philippians 3:6

John 1:25

Why: Matthew 21:23, Acts 4:5-7, Acts 5:28

that Christ: John 1:20-22, Daniel 9:24-26

Reciprocal: Matthew 3:7 - the Pharisees

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place. Let the dry land be seen." And it was so.

Genesis 1:10
Then God called the dry land Earth. He called the gathering of the waters Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 6:20
Two of all the kinds of birds, and animals, and every thing that moves on the ground are to be with you to keep them alive.

Genesis 7:14
With them went every kind of animal, and all the cattle, and every thing that moved on the earth, and every kind of bird.

Genesis 8:19
Every animal, every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out of the large boat by their families.

Job 39:1
"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch the deer giving birth?

Job 39:5
"Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has taken off the ropes which held the fast donkey?

Job 39:9
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he stay through the night by the food you give him to eat?

Job 39:19
"Do you give the horse his strength? Do you dress his neck with long hair?

Job 40:15
"See now the hippopotamus, which I made as well as you. He eats grass like an ox.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Who were the straitest sect of religion among the Jews; were very zealous of the traditions of the elders, and professed an expectation of the Messiah; and were famous in the nation for their knowledge and learning, as well as for their devotion and sanctity: and many of them were in the sanhedrim, as appears from John 3:1,

John 3:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Were of the Pharisees - For an account of this sect, see the notes at Matthew 3:7. Why they are particularly mentioned is not certainly known. Many of the “Sadducees” came to his baptism Matthew 3:7, but it seems that they did not join in sending to him to know what was the design of John. This circumstance is one of those incidental and delicate allusions which would occur to no impostor in forging a book, and which show that the writers of the New Testament were honest men and knew what they affirmed. Because:

1. The Pharisees composed a great part of the Sanhedrin, Acts 23:6. It is probable that a deputation from the Sanhedrin would be of that party.
2. The Pharisees were very tenacious of rites and customs, of traditions and ceremonies. They observed many. They believed that they were lawful, Mark 7:3-4. Of course, they believed that those rites might be increased, but they did not suppose that it could be done except by the authority of a prophet or of the Messiah. When, therefore, John came “baptizing” - adding a rite to be observed by his followers - baptizing not only Gentiles, but also Jews - the question was whether he had authority to institute a new rite; whether it was to be received among the ceremonies of religion. In this question the Sadducees felt no interest, for they rejected all such rites at once; but the Pharisees thought it was worth inquiry, and it was a question on which they felt themselves specially called on to act as the guardians of the ceremonies of religion.