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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. ”
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These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.