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23 He said, ‘I am the voice of somebody shouting in the wilderness:

    “The Lord will come soon.
    Make a straight path for him to follow.”
That is what the prophet Isaiah said a long time ago.’[a]

24 The men who came to ask these questions were Pharisees. 25 They said to John, ‘You say that you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet. So why do you baptize people?’

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  1. 1:23 See Isaiah 40:3.

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent 25 questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3