24. (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
25. So they asked John, “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26. John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,
27. who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”
28. These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.
29. On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
30. This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’
31. I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”
32. Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
33. And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining – this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’