²⁵ They said to John, ‘You say that you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet. So why do you baptize people?’ ²⁶ John replied, ‘I baptize people with water. But there is someone here among you that you do not know. ²⁷ He is the one who comes after me. I am not good enough even to undo his shoes for him.’