26. ‘I baptise with water,’ John replied, ‘but among you stands one you do not know.
27. He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’
28. This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptising.
29. The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30. This is the one I meant when I said, “A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.”
31. I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptising with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.’