and they questioned him: “Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
In context
23He replied, “I am a voice crying out in the desert: make the way of the Lord straight — as the prophet Isaiah said.” 24Those who had been sent were from the Pharisees, 25and they questioned him: “Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” 26John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one you do not know, 27the one who comes after me; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal.”