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!
30 “This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who has become before me, for He was before me.’
31 “And I did not know Him, but that He might be revealed to Yisra’ĕl, therefore I came immersing in water.”