^{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,