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He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord, ’ as the prophet Isaiah said. ”
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(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. )
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They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? ”
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John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
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even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie. ”