| 1:19 |
And this is the Testimony of John, ... |
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when the Jews out of Jerusalem
sent Priests and Levites to him so that they might ask him, ...
"Who are you?" |
| 1:20 |
And he confessed and did not deny. And he confessed that,
"I am not the Christ." |
| 1:21 |
And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elias"? ... And he says,
"I am not." |
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"Are you The Prophet"? ... And he answered, "No." |
| 1:22 |
Then they said to him, "Who are you?" |
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"So that we may give
an answer to the ones having sent us." |
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"What do you say about
yourself?" |
| 1:23 |
He said, "I, a voice crying in the wilderness." |
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"Make
straight the way of the Lord," as said Isaiah the Prophet. |
| 1:24 |
And the ones having been sent were of the Pharisees. |
| 1:25 |
And they asked him, and said to him, ... "Why then do you baptize,
... |
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if you are not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the Prophet?" |
| 1:26 |
The John answered them saying, ... "I baptize in water." |
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"Among
you has stood one whom you do not recognize, ..." |
| 1:27 |
"the One coming after me, of whom I am not worthy, ..." |
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"that I should loosen of him the thong of the sandal." |
| 1:28 |
These things happened in Bethany, beyond the Jordan where John
was baptizing. |
