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{19} And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent
priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? {20} And he
confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. {21} And they
asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that
prophet? And he answered, No. {22} Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that
we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
{23} He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight
the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. {24} And they which were sent
were of the Pharisees. {25} And they asked him, and said unto him, Why
baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that
prophet? {26} John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there
standeth one among you, whom ye know not; {27} He it is, who coming after me
is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
{28} These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
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