lont - John:1:19-28

lont@John:1:19 @ Now this is the testimony of John. When the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him, Who are you?

lont@John:1:20 @ he acknowledged, and denied not, but acknowledged, saying, I am not the Messiah.

lont@John:1:21 @ And they asked him, Who, then? Are you Elijah? He said, I am not. Are you the prophet? He answered, No.

lont@John:1:22 @ They said, Tell, then, who you are, that we may return an answer to them who sent us. What do you say of yourself?

lont@John:1:23 @ «He answered, I am he whose voice proclaims in the wilderness,» 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' 'as said, the Prophet Isaiah.'

lont@John:1:24 @ Now they who were sent, were of the Pharisees.

lont@John:1:25 @ And they questioned him further, Why, then, do you immerse, if you be not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?

lont@John:1:26 @ John answered, I immerse in water, but there is one among you whom you know not.

lont@John:1:27 @ It is he who comes after me, and was before me; whose shoe-string I am not worthy to loose.

lont@John:1:28 @ This happened at Bethabara, upon the Jordan, where John was immersing.