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25 So they asked him saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor ‘the Prophet’?”
26 John answered them saying, “I baptize with water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.
27 He is the One coming after me who is now ahead of me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”
28 These things happened in Bithabara, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him and says, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is now ahead of me, because He existed before I did.’
31 I did not know Him; but so that He should be revealed to Israel, that is why I came baptizing with water.”
32 And John testified saying, “I observed the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and He rested upon Him.
33 Now I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting—this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34 So I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”