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He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," '
just as Isaiah the prophet said."
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(And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
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And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
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John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. In your midst stands [one] whom you do not know--
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the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy {to untie} the strap of his sandal!"