web - John:1:19-28

web@John:1:19 @ This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

web@John:1:20 @ He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ."

web@John:1:21 @ They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

web@John:1:22 @ 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?"

web@John:1:23 @ He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' {Isaiah strkjv@40:3} as Isaiah the prophet said."

web@John:1:24 @ The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

web@John:1:25 @ They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

web@John:1:26 @ John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

web@John:1:27 @ He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."

web@John:1:28 @ These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.