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He said, "I am `the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord,"' as said the prophet Isaiah."
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And those who were sent were of the Pharisees.
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And they asked him, and said unto him, "Why dost thou baptize then if thou art not that Christ, nor Elijah, 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 strap I am not worthy to unloose."