John 1:20-44

²⁰He acknowledged, and denied not, and he acknowledged, For I am not Christ.

²¹And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he said, I am not. Art thou a prophet? or the prophet? And he answered, Nay.

²²Therefore they said to him, Who art thou? That we give an answer to these that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

²³He said, I am a voice of a crier or a voice of a man crying in desert, Dress ye the way of the Lord, as Isaiah the prophet, said.

²⁴And they that were sent, were of the Pharisees.

²⁵And they asked him, and said to him, What then baptizest thou, if thou art not Christ, neither Elijah, neither a prophet?

²⁶John answered to them, and said, I baptize in water, but in the middle of you hath stand or stood one, that ye know not;

²⁷he it is, that shall come after me, that was made before me, of whom I am not worthy to loosen the thong of his shoe.

²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond or over Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹Another day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, Lo! the lamb of God; lo! he that doeth away the sins of the world.

³⁰This is he, that I said of, After me is come a man or After me cometh a man, which was made before me; for he was rather or former than I.

³¹And I knew him not, but that he be showed in Israel, therefore I came baptizing in water.

³²And John bare witnessing, and said, I saw the Spirit coming down as a culver from heaven, and dwelled on him.

³³And I knew him not; but he that sent me to baptize in water, said to me, On whom thou seest the Spirit coming down, and dwelling on him, this is he, that baptizeth in the Holy Ghost.

³⁴And I saw, and bare witnessing, that this is the Son of God.

³⁵Another day John stood, and two of his disciples;

³⁶and he beheld Jesus walking, and saith, Lo! the lamb of God.

³⁷And two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

³⁸And Jesus turned, and saw them pursuing him, and saith to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi, that is to say, Master, where dwellest thou?

³⁹And he saith to them, Come ye, and see. And they came, and saw where he dwelled; and dwelt with him that day. And it was as the tenth hour.

⁴⁰And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the twain, that heard of John, and had pursued him.

⁴¹This found first his brother Simon, and he said to him, We have found Messiah, that is to say, Christ;

⁴²and he led him to Jesus. And Jesus beheld him, and said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas, that is to say, Peter.

⁴³And on the morrow he would go out into Galilee, and he found Philip; and he saith to him, Pursue thou me.

⁴⁴Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and of Peter.