24. Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.
25. So 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.
27. He is the One coming after me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”
28. All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30. This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’
31. I didn’t know Him, but I came baptizing with water so He might be revealed to Israel.”