25. And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
26. John answered them, saying: I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
27. The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.
28. These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.