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15 John witnessed concerning him and cried and said, This is the one of whom I said, He is coming after me, and yet he is ahead of me, because he was before me.
16 And of his fulness we have all received, grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses; but truth and grace came into being by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has ever seen God; but the firstborn of God, who is in the bosom of his Father, he has declared him.
19 This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?
20 And he confessed and did not deny it; but he declared, I am not the Christ.
21 Then they asked him again, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you a prophet? And he said, No.
22 Then they said to him, Who are you? so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say concerning yourself?
23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Straighten the highway of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.