John 1:19-25

Twentieth_Century(i) 19 When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this: 20 He confessed and did not deny it, he confessed--"I am not the Christ." 21 "What then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No," he said, "I am not." "Are you 'the Prophet'?" He answered, "No." 22 "Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 23 "I," he answered, "am--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness--"straighten the way of the Lord"', as the Prophet Isaiah said." 24 These men had been sent from the Pharisees; 25 And their next question was: "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor yet 'the Prophet'?"