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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.
24 Those who were sent were from 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 a prophet?
26 John answered and said to them, I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know;
27 This is the one who comes after me, and is ahead of me, the one even the strings of whose shoes I am not good enough to untie.
28 These things happened in Bethany, at the Jordan crossing, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is the one of whom I said, The man who comes after me is yet ahead of me, because he was before me.
31 And I did not know him; but that he might be made known to Israel, I came to baptize with water.
32 And John testified and said, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it rested upon him.
33 And yet I did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water, said to me, The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
34 And I saw and testified that this is the Son of God.
35 The next day John was standing, with two of his disciples;
36 And he looked at Jesus while he walked, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God!