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—
27. the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”
28. These things took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29. On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!