24. Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.
25. They asked him, “Why do you baptize then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26. John answered them, “I baptize with water, but One stands among you, whom you do not know.
27. This is He who comes after me, who is preferred before me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
28. These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.