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25 So they asked him, `If you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet, why then are you baptizing?'

26 John answered, `I baptize people in water. But there is a man standing among you whom you do not know.

27 He is the one coming after me who is greater than I am. I am not even good enough to untie his shoe strings.'

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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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Footnotes

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