19And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"20And he confessed and did not deny, and he confessed, "I am not the Christ."21And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No."22They said therefore to him, "Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"23He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."24And they had been sent from the Pharisees.25And they asked him and said to him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"26John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. One stands among you whom you do not know."27He is the one coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal.28These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.