John the Baptist Testifies to Jesus

¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent^[a] priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, “Who are you?” ²⁰ And he confessed—and he did not deny, and confessed—“I am not the Christ!” ²¹ And they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?”^[b] And he answered, “No!” ²² Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

²³ He said,

just as Isaiah the prophet said.” ²⁴ (And they had been sent from the Pharisees.) ²⁵ And they asked him and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

²⁶ John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water. In your midst stands one whom you do not know— ²⁷ the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie^[d] the strap of his sandal!”

²² Moses said, ‘The Lord God^[a] will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you.^{[b] 23} And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.’^[c]