25. They said to John, “You say you are not the Messiah. You say you are not Elijah or the Prophet. Then why do you baptize people?”
26. John answered, “I baptize people with water. But there is someone here with you that you don’t know.
27. He is the one who is coming later. I am not good enough to be the slave who unties the strings on his sandals.”
28. These things all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan River. This is where John was baptizing people.