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25 They asked him, “Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah,[a] or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

26 John answered them, “I am baptizing with[b] water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know, 27 the one who is coming after me, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie.”

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  1. John 1:25 Or Christ
  2. John 1:26 Or in

25 questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

26 “I baptize with[a] water,”(A) John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know. 27 He is the one who comes after me,(B) the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”(C)

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  1. John 1:26 Or in; also in verses 31 and 33 (twice)