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21 So they asked him, “Well then, are you Elijah?”

John[a] said, “I am not.”

“Are you the Prophet?”

He answered, “No.”

22 “Who are you?” they asked him. “We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

23 He replied, “I am

‘…a voice crying out in the wilderness,
    “Prepare the Lord’s[b] highway,”’[c]

as the prophet Isaiah said.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:21 Lit. He
  2. John 1:23 MT source citation reads Lord’s
  3. John 1:23 Cf. Isa 40:3