You yourselves bear witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before Him.'
For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "A voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the LORD; make His paths straight.' "
"And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Messiah."
He said: "I am 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Make straight the way of the LORD," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."
And they asked him, saying, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
He is the One who comes after me, who has come to be before me, of whom I am not worthy that I should loose the strap of His sandal."