John 1:24-26

American Standard Version

^24 [a]And they had been sent from the Pharisees. ²⁵ And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet? ²⁶ John answered them, saying, I baptize ^[b]in water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,