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

^{22 Ref} Then said they 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 the prophet Esaias.

^{24 Ref} And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

^{25 Ref} And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

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

^{27 Ref} He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

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

^{29 Ref} The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

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