John 1:20-34

20He openly admitted and did not deny; he admitted, “I am not the Messiah.”

21“What then? Are you Elijah?” they asked him. “I am not,” said John. “Are you the Prophet?” “No,” he answered.

22So they said to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

23He said, “I am ‘the voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of Adonai,”’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24Now those sent were from the Pharisees.

25They asked him, “If you’re not the Messiah, Elijah, or the Prophet, why then are you immersing?”

26“I immerse in water,” John answered. “Among you stands One you do not know,

27coming after me, whose sandals I’m not worthy to untie.”

28These things happened in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.

29The next day, John sees Yeshua coming to him and says, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

30This is the One about whom I told you, ‘He who comes after me is above me, because He was before me.’

31I didn’t know Him, but I came immersing with water so that He might be revealed to Israel.”

32Then John testified, “I have seen the Ruach coming down like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on Him.

33I did not know Him; but the One who sent me to immerse in water said to me, ‘The One on whom you see the Ruach coming down and remaining, this is the One who immerses in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.’

34And I have seen and testified that this is Ben-Elohim.”