Yochanan 1:23-27

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.”