John 1:19-34 - John The Baptist Testifies To Jesus
19 When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this:
20 He confessed and did not deny it, he confessed--"I am not the Christ."
21 "What then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No," he said, "I am not." "Are you 'the Prophet'?" He answered, "No."
22 "Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
23 "I," he answered, "am--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness--"straighten the way of the Lord"', as the Prophet Isaiah said."
24 These men had been sent from the Pharisees; 25 And their next question was: "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor yet 'the Prophet'?"
26 John's answer was--"I baptize with water, but among you stands one whom you do not know; 27 He is coming after me, yet I am not worthy even to unfasten his sandal."
28 All this took place at Bethany, across the Jordan, where John was then baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him, and exclaimed: "Here is the Lamb of God, who is to take away the sin of the world! 30 It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.' 31 I myself did not know him, but, that he may be made known to Israel, I have come, baptizing with water."
32 John also made this statement--"I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of the heavens, and it remained upon him. 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' 34 This I have seen myself, and I have declared my belief that he is the Son of God."