John 1:24
Good News Translation
The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,

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

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

New American Bible
Some Pharisees were also sent.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.

were of.

John 3:1,2 And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. . . .

John 7:47-49 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? . . .

Matthew 23:13-15,26 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. . . .

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Luke 11:39-44,53 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. . . .

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Acts 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

Acts 26:5 Having known me from the beginning (if they will give testimony) that according to the most sure sect of our religion I lived, a Pharisee.

Philippians 3:5,6 Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a Pharisee: . . .

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
23He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias. 24And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. 25And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?…
Cross References
John 1:23
He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.

John 1:25
And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

John 1:23
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