Now they argued to themselves, "[What are we to say?] If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why did you not believe him.'
he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"
Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."
Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!
(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')
They argued among themselves, "But we have not brought any bread!"
What about the baptism of John? Was it from heaven or from men?"
No, let us say, From men" — but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.