Yochanan 1:19-37

¹⁹This is Yochanan’s testimony, when the Judeans sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

²⁰He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Messiah.”

²¹They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

²²They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

²³He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

²⁴The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

²⁵They asked him, “Why then do you immerse if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

²⁶Yochanan answered them, “I immerse in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

²⁷He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where Yochanan was immersing.

²⁹The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

³⁰This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

³¹I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came immersing in water, that he would be revealed to Israel.”

³²Yochanan testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

³³I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to immerse in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit.’

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

³⁵Again, the next day, Yochanan was standing with two of his disciples,

³⁶and he looked at Yeshua as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

³⁷The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Yeshua.