American Standard Version
"And they had been sent from the Pharisees. "
— John 1:24, American Standard Version
“And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.”
“The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.”
“(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)”
“And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.”
“Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.”
“And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.”
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.
They said therefore unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
And they had been sent from the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?
John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,
even he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.