rsv John:1:19-34
rsv@John:1:19 @ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
rsv@John:1:20 @ He confessed, he did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."
rsv@John:1:21 @ And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" And he answered, "No."
rsv@John:1:22 @ They said to him then, "Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
rsv@John:1:23 @ He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, `Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."
rsv@John:1:24 @ Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.
rsv@John:1:25 @ They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"
rsv@John:1:26 @ John answered them, "I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know,
rsv@John:1:27 @ even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."
rsv@John:1:28 @ This took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
rsv@John:1:29 @ The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
rsv@John:1:30 @ This is he of whom I said, `After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.'
rsv@John:1:31 @ I myself did not know him; but for this I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel."
rsv@John:1:32 @ And John bore witness, "I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
rsv@John:1:33 @ I myself did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, `He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
rsv@John:1:34 @ And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."
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