John 1:15–28

¹⁵John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.

¹⁶And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

¹⁷For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

¹⁸No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

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

²⁰And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the Christ.

²¹And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.

²²They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?

²³He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.

²⁴And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.

²⁵And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

²⁶John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.

²⁷The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.

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