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And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.
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And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
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John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
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The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.
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These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.