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23 He replied, “I am

‘…a voice crying out in the wilderness,
    “Prepare the Lord’s[a] highway,”’[b]

as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24 Now those men[c] had been sent from the Pharisees. 25 They asked him, “Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah,[d] or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

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  1. John 1:23 MT source citation reads Lord’s
  2. John 1:23 Cf. Isa 40:3
  3. John 1:24 Lit. Now they
  4. John 1:25 Or Christ

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent 25 questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3