John 1:21-25

21They asked him, “What then? Are you 1Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you 2the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” 22Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” 23He said, “I am 3a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

24Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. 25They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the 4Christ, nor Elijah, nor 5the Prophet?”