23. He said, “I am ‘the voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of Adonai,”’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24. Now those sent were from the Pharisees.
25. They asked him, “If you’re not the Messiah, Elijah, or the Prophet, why then are you immersing?”
26. “I immerse in water,” John answered. “Among you stands One you do not know,
27. coming after me, whose sandals I’m not worthy to untie.”
28. These things happened in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.
29. The next day, John sees Yeshua coming to him and says, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
30. This is the One about whom I told you, ‘He who comes after me is above me, because He was before me.’
31. I didn’t know Him, but I came immersing with water so that He might be revealed to Israel.”
32. Then John testified, “I have seen the Ruach coming down like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on Him.
33. I did not know Him; but the One who sent me to immerse in water said to me, ‘The One on whom you see the Ruach coming down and remaining, this is the One who immerses in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.’
34. And I have seen and testified that this is Ben-Elohim.”
35. Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples
36. and watched Yeshua walking by. He said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
37. The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Yeshua.
38. Yeshua turned around and saw them following. He said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), “where are you staying?”
39. “Come and see,” Yeshua tells them. So they came and saw where He was staying, and they spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.