^{21 Ref} And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.

^{22 Ref} They said therefore unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

^{23 Ref} He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

^{24 Ref} And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

^{25 Ref} And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet?

^{26 Ref} John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,

^{27 Ref} `even' he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.

^{28 Ref} These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

^{29 Ref} On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!

^{30 Ref} This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.