John 1:19-28 ▼

19 And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites out of Jerusalem, that they might question him, “Who are you?”

20 And he confessed and did not deny, and confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

21 And they questioned him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those sending us? What do you say concerning yourself?”

23 He said, “I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the LORD, as Isaiah the prophet said.”

24 And those sent were of the Pharisees,

25 and they questioned him and said to him, “Why, then, do you immerse, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

26 John answered them, saying, “I immerse in water, but in the midst of you has stood He whom you have not known, it is this One who is coming after me, who has been before me,

27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the strap of His sandal.”

28 These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.