John 1:21-23

J.B. Phillips New Testament

²¹ So they asked him, “Who are you then? Are you Elijah?” “No, I am not,” he replied. “Are you the Prophet?” “No,” he replied.

²² “Well, then,” they asked again, “who are you? We want to give an answer to the people who sent us. What would you call yourself?”

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