20 And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, “(A)I am not [a]the Christ.”

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  1. John 1:20 I.e. the Messiah

20 He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Messiah.”(A)

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23 He said, “I am (A)a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

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23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3