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He said, I am a voice of a crier in desert [I am a voice of a man crying in desert], Dress ye the way of the Lord, as Esaias, the prophet, said.
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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, What then baptizest thou, if thou art not Christ, neither Elias, neither a prophet?
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John answered to them, and said [saying], I baptize in water, but in the middle of you hath stand one, that ye know not [whom ye know not];
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he it is, that shall come after me [he it is, that is to coming after me], that was made before me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the thong of his shoe.