20. He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Messiah.”
21. They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”He said, “I am not.”“Are you the prophet?”He answered, “No.”
22. They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23. He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
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?”