This Is the Record of John

This is the record of John,

when the Jews sent priests and Levites

from Jerusalem to ask him: Who art thou?

And he confessed and denied not; and said plainly:

I am not the Christ. And they asked him:

What art thou then? Art thou Elias?

And he said, I am not. Art thou the prophet?

And he answered, No. Then said they unto him:

What art thou? That we may give an answer unto them that sent us.

What sayest thou of thyself? And he said, I am the voice of him

that crieth in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord.