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

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;

These things came to pass in Bethabara,
beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

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,
of whom I am not worthy that I may
loose the cord of his sandal.'

 And those sent were of the Pharisees,

and they questioned him and said to him,

"Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

He said, 'I [am] a voice of one
crying in the wilderness:
Make straight the way of the Lord,
as said Isaiah the prophet.

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

 And they questioned him [John the Baptist],
'What then? Elijah art thou?'
and he saith, 'I am not.'
'The prophet art thou?'
and he answered, 'No.'

and he, John the Baptist, confessed
and did not deny, and confessed,
"I am not the Christ."

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?'

God no one hath ever seen;
the only begotten Son,
who is on the bosom of the Father
he did declare.

 for the law through Moses was given,
the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ
did come;