"What then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No," he said, "I am not." "Are you 'the Prophet'?" He answered, "No."

"I," he answered, "am--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness--"straighten the way of the Lord"', as the Prophet Isaiah said."

And their next question was: "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor yet 'the Prophet'?"

"I see, Sir, that you are a Prophet!" exclaimed the woman.

For he himself declared that 'a Prophet is not honored in his own country.'

When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said: "This is certainly 'the Prophet who was to come' into the world."

"This is certainly 'the Prophet'!"; others said: "This is the Christ!"; but some asked: "What! does the Christ come from Galilee?

"Are you also from Galilee?" they retorted. "Search, and you will find that no Prophet is to arise in Galilee!"

In fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?'