Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Anonymous

Quote by Anonymous

“They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." [καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτόν Τί οὖν Ἠλίας εἶ Σύ καὶ λέγει Οὐκ εἰμί Ὁ προφήτης εἶ σύ καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Οὔ] John 1:21”

Quote by Anonymous

Work

Holy Bible: New International Version

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Anonymous

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Anonymous. more

You May Also Like

“John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us and leaving us not quite sure of how we feel about him. ... And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like even though we stand back in admiration of him. We react the same way to most absolute figured.”

“The voice in the wilderness still cries out—not from the desert sands, but from the pages of Scripture—calling us to prepare our hearts for the Lamb who has come and is coming again.”

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the novelist's or playwright's.”