MNT(i)
21 "What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.
22 Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"
23 He said, "I am a voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the prophet Isaiah."
24 Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;
25 so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
26 "I indeed am baptizing in water," John said in reply, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not recognize,
27 One who is to come after me, whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to untie."
28 This happened in Bethany, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'