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New Testament
John 1:19-28
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
19This is the testimony John gave when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites[] to ask him, “Who are you?”
20He confessed and did not deny. He confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21And they asked him, “Who are you then? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
“No,” he answered.
22Then they asked him, “Who are you? Tell us so we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’[] just as Isaiah the prophet said.”
24They had been sent from the Pharisees. 25So they asked John, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”
26“I baptize with water,” John answered. “Among you stands one you do not know. 27He is the one coming after me,[] whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.”
28These things happened in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Footnotes
- 1:19 Some witnesses to the text add to him.
- 1:23 Isaiah 40:3
- 1:27 Some witnesses to the text add who existed before me (see 1:30 where this clause is definitely part of the text).