20. And he confessed—and he did not deny, and confessed—“I am not the Christ!”
21. And they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No!”
22. Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
23. He said, “I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of the Lord,” ’ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”
24. (And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
25. And they asked him and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26. John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water. In your midst stands one whom you do not know—