Moffatt(i)
23 He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' — as the prophet Isaiah said."
24 Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;
25 so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"
26 "I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize,
27 and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandal."
28 This took place at Bethany on the opposite side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.