22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

23 He said,

“I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the wilderness,
    “Make straight the way of the Lord,”’[a]

just as Isaiah the prophet said.” 24 (And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:23 A quotation from Isa 40:3