22. They said therefore 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 out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.
24. And they that were sent, were of the Pharisees.
25. And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
26. John answered them, saying: I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
27. The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.
28. These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.