23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3

27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

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27 He is the one who comes after me,(A) the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”(B)

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