John 1:23-31

23He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord  — just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

24Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

25So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

26“I baptize with water,” John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know him.

27He is the one coming after me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”

28All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

30This is the one I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’

31I didn’t know him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel.”