John 1:19-28

21st Century King James Version

¹⁹ And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who art thou?”

²⁰ And he confessed and denied not, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

²¹ And they asked him, “What then? Art thou Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Art thou that Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

²² Then said they unto him, “Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?”

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

²⁴ And those who were sent were of the Pharisees.

²⁵ And they asked him, and said unto him, “Why dost thou baptize then if thou art not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that Prophet?”

²⁶ John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there standeth One among you whom ye know not.

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

²⁸ These things were done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.