22. They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'
23. He said, `I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'
24. And those sent were of the Pharisees,
25. and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
26. John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,
27. of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'
28. These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,
29. on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
30. this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:
31. and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.
32. And John testified, saying--`I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;
33. and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayest see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;
34. and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'
35. On the morrow, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,
36. and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God;'