^{15 Ref} John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'

^{16 Ref} and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;

^{17 Ref} for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

^{18 Ref} God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.

^{19 Ref} And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?'

^{20 Ref} and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.'

^{21 Ref} And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

^{22 Ref} They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'

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

^{24 Ref} And those sent were of the Pharisees,

^{25 Ref} and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

^{26 Ref} John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

^{27 Ref} of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

^{28 Ref} These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

^{29 Ref} on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

^{30 Ref} this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

^{31 Ref} and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.

^{32 Ref} And John testified, saying -- `I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;

^{33 Ref} and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

^{34 Ref} and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

^{35 Ref} On the morrow, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,

^{36 Ref} and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God;'