John 1:19-28 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem that they might ask him, Who art thou?

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem that they might ask him, Who art thou? ²⁰ And he acknowledged, and denied not; and he acknowledged, That I am not the Christ. ²¹ And they asked, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou a prophet? And he answered, No. ²² Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we might give answer to them having sent us. What sayest thou for thyself? ²³ He said, I the voice of him crying in the desert, Make ye straight the way of the Lord, as said Esaias the prophet. ²⁴ And they having been sent were of the Pharisees. ²⁵ And they asked him, and said to him, Why immersest thou then, if thou art not Christ, neither Elias, neither a prophet? ²⁶ John answered them saying, I immerse in water: but he stands the midst of you, whom ye know not; ²⁷ This is he coming after me, who was before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loose the strings of his shoes. ²⁸ These things were in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was immersing.