24. The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
25. They asked him, “Why then do you immerse, if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
26. Yochanan answered them, “I immerse in water, but amongst you stands one whom you don’t know.
27. He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
28. These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where Yochanan was immersing.
29. The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30. This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’