John Testifies to the Authorities

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Then this is the record of Iohn, when the Iewes sent Priestes and Leuites from Hierusalem, to aske him, Who art thou?

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And he confessed and denied not, and said plainely, I am not that Christ.

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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No.

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Then said they vnto him, Who art thou, that we may giue an answere to them that sent vs? What sayest thou of thy selfe?

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He said, I am the voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.

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Nowe they which were sent, were of the Pharises.

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And they asked him, and saide vnto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, neither Elias, nor that Prophet?

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Iohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there is one among you, whom ye knowe not.

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He it is that commeth after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthie to vnloose.

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These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan, where Iohn did baptize.