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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 whom you do not know,
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even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.