John 1:25 CPDV

²³  He said, 'I am a voice crying out in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' just as the prophet Isaiah said.'

²⁴  And some of those who had been sent were from among the Pharisees.

²⁵  And they questioned him and said to him, 'Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the Prophet?'

²⁶  John answered them by saying: 'I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.

²⁷  The same is he who is to come after me, who has been placed ahead of me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen.'