John 1:24–27

24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.av 25 So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

26 “I baptize with* water,”aw John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know him. 27 He is the one coming after me,B,ax whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”

av	Mk 7:3
*	* Jn 1:31 Jn 1:33
aw	Mk 1:8
B	Other mss add who came before me
ax	Jn 1:15