John 1:19-28 ▼

19 And this is the testimony of John when the Jews of Jerusalem sent to him priests and Levites so that they might ask him, “Who are you?”

20 And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

22 Therefore they said to him, “Who are you, so that we might give an answer to those having sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

23 He was saying, “I am a voice crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

24 And ones having been sent were from the Pharisees,

25 and they asked him and said to him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

26 John answered them, saying, “I baptize in water, but in the midst of you? stands One whom you? do not know,

27 the One coming after me, of whom I am not worthy that I should loose the strap of His sandal.”

28 These things came to pass in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.