23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of יהוה,’ as the prophet Yeshayahu said.”
24 And those sent were of the Pharisees,
25 and they asked him, saying, “Why then do you immerse if you are not the Messiah, nor Ěliyahu, nor the Prophet?”
26 Yoḥanan answered them, saying, “I immerse in water, but in your midst stands One whom you do not know,
27 the One coming after me, who has become before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loosen.”
28 This took place in Bĕyth Anyah beyond the Yardĕn, where Yoḥanan was immersing.
29 On the next day Yoḥanan saw יהושע coming toward him, and said, “See, the Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of the world!