²⁵ And they asked him, and said unto him, “Why dost thou baptize then if thou art not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that Prophet?”

²⁶ John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there standeth One among you whom ye know not.

²⁷ He it is who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoe’s strap I am not worthy to unloose.”