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

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

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

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?

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wildernesse: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.

And they which were sent, were of the Pharises.

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

Iohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not,

He it is, who comming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordane, where Iohn was baptizing.