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And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
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John answered them, saying , I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
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He it is , who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose .
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These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing .
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The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith , Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.