John 1:20-44

²⁰and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed — 'I am not the Christ.'

²¹And they questioned him, 'What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, 'I am not.' — 'The prophet art thou?' and he answered, 'No.'

²²They said then to him, 'Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'

²³He said, 'I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

²⁴And those sent were of the Pharisees,

²⁵and they questioned him and said to him, 'Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

²⁶John answered them, saying, 'I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

²⁷of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

²⁸These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

²⁹on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

³⁰this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

³¹and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.

³²And John testified, saying — 'I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;

³³and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayest see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

³⁴and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

³⁵On the morrow, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,

³⁶and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God;'

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

³⁸And Jesus having turned, and having beheld them following, saith to them, 'What seek ye?' and they said to them, 'Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou?'

³⁹He saith to them, 'Come and see;' they came, and saw where he doth remain, and with him they remained that day and the hour was about the tenth.

⁴⁰Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed him;

⁴¹this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, 'We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)

⁴²and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, 'Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)

⁴³On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, 'Be following me.'

⁴⁴And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter;