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21 And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elijah? And he says: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No.
22 They said therefore to him: Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
24 And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou immerse, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
26 John answered them, saying: I immerse in water. There stands one in the midst of you, whom ye know not;
27 he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.
28 These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.
29 On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who is preferred before me; because he was before me.