John 1:23-27

²³John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”

²⁴Now those who were sent were Pharisees.

²⁵They asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

²⁶John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but One stands among you that you don’t know.

²⁷It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”