¹⁹ And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

²⁰ And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

²¹ And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

²² Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

²³ He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

²⁴ And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

²⁵ And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

²⁶ John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

²⁷ He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

²⁸ These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

¹ When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

² Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

⁵ What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶ You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?

⁷ Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.