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19 And thys is the recorde of Iohn: when the Iewes sent Prestes and Leuites from Ierusalem, to aske hym, what art thou?
20 And he confessed & denyed not, & sayde playnly. I am not Chryst.
21 And they asked him: what then? art thou Helyas? And he sayeth: I am not. Arte thou that Prophete? And he answered no.
22 Then sayde they vnto hym: what art thou, that we maye geue an answer to them that sent vs. What sayest thou of thy selfe?
23 He sayde I am the voyce of a criar in the wildernes, make strayght the waye of the Lorde, as sayde the Prophete Esaias.
24 And they whych were sent, were of the Pharyses:
25 And they asked him, & sayde vnto him: why baptisest thou then, yf thou be not Christ, nor Helias, nether that Prophet?
26 Iohn answered them sayinge I baptise with water: but there stondeth one amonge you, whom ye knowe not,
27 he it is which though he came after me, was before me, whose sho latchet I am not worthy to vnlose.
28 These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan where Iohn dyd baptise.
29 The nexte daye, Iohn seeth Iesus comminge vnto hym, and sayeth beholde the lambe of God, whych taketh awaye the synne of the worlde.
30 Thys is he of whom I sayd: After me cometh a man, whych went before me, for he was before me,
31 and I knewe him not: but that he shuld be declared to Israell, therfore am I come baptysinge with water.
32 And Iohn bare recorde, sayinge: I sawe the sprete descende from heauen, lyke vnto a doue, & abode vpon him,
33 and I knewe hym not. But he that sent me to baptise in water, the same sayde vnto me: vpon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende, and tary styll on hym, the same is he whych baptiseth wyth the holy goost.
34 And I sawe, and bare recorde, that he is the sonne of God.