You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'
he frankly confessed — he did not deny it, he frankly confessed, "I am not the Christ."
He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' — as the prophet Isaiah said."
(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')
so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"
And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,
and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandal."