^{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.