23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord(A)[a]—just as Isaiah(B) the prophet said.”

24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.(C) 25 So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

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  1. John 1:23 Is 40:3

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)

24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent 25 questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3