²² “Well, then,” they asked again, “who are you? We want to give an answer to the people who sent us. What would you call yourself?”

²³ “I am ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

^24-25 Now some of the Pharisees had been sent to John, and they questioned him, “What is the reason, then, for your baptising people if you are not Christ and not Elijah and not the Prophet?”