22. They said to him then, “Who are you? Tell us so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say concerning yourself?”
23. John said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24. Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.
25. They asked him, “Why do you baptize then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26. John answered them, “I baptize with water, but One stands among you, whom you do not know.
27. This is He who comes after me, who is preferred before me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”