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19 And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem, to aske hym: What art thou? 20 And he confessed and denyed not, and sayde playnely, I am not that Christe. 21 And they asked hym: What then? art thou Elias? And he sayth, I am not. Art thou that prophete? And he aunswered, no. 22 Then sayde they vnto hym: What art thou? that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe? 23 He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse, make strayght the way of the Lorde, as sayde the prophete Esaias. 24 And they which were sent, were of the pharisees. 25 And they asked hym, and sayde vnto hym: Why baptizest thou then, yf thou be not Christe, nor Elias, neither that prophete? 26 Iohn aunswered them, saying: I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye knowe not, 27 He it is, which though he came after me, was before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose. 28 These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Iohn dyd baptize. John 1:19-28, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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