Yohanes 1:22

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Lalu kata mereka itu kepadanya, "Siapakah gerangan engkau? Supaya dapat kami memberi jawab kepada orang yang menyuruhkan kami ini. Apakah kata engkau akan hal dirimu?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka kata mereka kepadanya: "Siapakah engkau? Sebab kami harus memberi jawab kepada mereka yang mengutus kami. Apakah katamu tentang dirimu sendiri?"

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Maka kata mereka kepadanya: "Siapakah engkau? Sebab kami harus memberi jawab kepada mereka yang mengutus kami. Apakah katamu tentang dirimu sendiri?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: 2 Samuel 24:13

Reciprocal: John 8:25 - Who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said they unto him, who art thou?.... Since, as yet, he had only answered in negatives, who he was not, that he was not the Christ, nor Elias, nor that prophet; they desire he would give them a positive account who he was:

that we may give answer to them that sent us; that their labour might not be in vain; that they might not come so far for nothing, without knowing who he was; and that they might be capable of giving an account of him to the sanhedrim:

what sayest thou of thyself? they insisted on it, that he would openly, and honestly declare who he was, and what was his office and business; that from his own mouth, and not from the opinion and conjectures of others, they might represent him in a true light to those who had deputed them on this errand.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. That we may give an answer to them that sent us. — These Pharisees were probably a deputation from the grand Sanhedrin; the members of which, hearing of the success of the Baptist's preaching, were puzzled to know what to make of him, and seriously desired to hear from himself what he professed to be.