²⁵ And they asked him and said unto him, Why dost thou baptize then if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?

²⁶ John answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there stands one among you, whom ye know not;

²⁷ he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.