John 1:19-28 ▼

19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, Who art thou?

20 he confessed, and denied not; but declared openly, I am not the Christ.

21 And they asked him, What then? art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou a prophet? and he answered, No.

22 Therefore said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us: What dost thou say of thy self?

23 and he said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," according to Esaias the prophet.

24 Now they that were sent, were of the pharisees:

25 and they asked him, and said to him, Why then dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor a prophet?

26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

27 that cometh after me, but is preferred before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.

28 These things passed at Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.