They said therefore unto him, "Who art thou? that we may give an
answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?"
He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make
straight the way of the Lord,' as said Isaiah the prophet."
And they had been sent from the Pharisees. And they asked him, and
said unto him, "Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ,
neither Elijah, neither the prophet."
John answered them, saying, "I baptize in water: in the midst of you
standeth one whom ye know not, even he that cometh after me, the
latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose."
These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, "Behold, the
Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! This is he of whom
I said, 'After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was
before me.' And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to
Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water."
And John bare witness, saying, "I have beheld the Spirit descending as
a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but
he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, 'Upon whomsoever
thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same
is he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit.' And I have seen, and have
borne witness that this is the Son of God."