Joh 1:15, 22-27 | ESV | STEP | ( John bore witness about him , and cried out, This was he of whom I said , He who comes after me ranks before me , because he was before me . )

f Matt. 3:11; Mark 1:7, 8; Luke 3:16; Acts 1:5; 13:25

John 1:15

15 ( ^aJohn bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ^b‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)

John 1:22-27

22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am ^cthe voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight ^{▼▼Or crying out, ‘In the wilderness make straight} the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, ^e“Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” 26 John answered them, ^f“I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even ^ghe who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”