Living_Oracles(i)
23 He answered, I am he whose voice proclaims in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," as said, the Prophet Isaiah.
24 Now they who were sent, were of the Pharisees.
25 And they questioned him further, Why, then, do you immerse, if you be not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?
26 John answered, I immerse in water, but there is one among you whom you know not.
27 It is he who comes after me, and was before me; whose shoe-string I am not worthy to loose.
28 This happened at Bethabara, upon the Jordan, where John was immersing.
29 On the next day, John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world.
30 This is He, concerning whom I said, After me a man comes, who is preferred to me; for he was before me.