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23 He said, "I am a voice crying in the wilderness:" "Make straight" "the way of the Lord," as Isaiah the prophet said. Isa. 40:3
24 And those who had been sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him and said to him, Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize in water, but One stands in your midst whom you do not know;
27 This One it is who has come after me, who has been before me, of whom I am not worthy that I should loose the thong of His sandal.
28 These things took place in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 On the morrow, John sees Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold! The Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world!
30 This is He about whom I said, After me comes a Man who has been before me, for He was preceding me.