And as Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you2f that I am? I am not [he]. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose.
And they came unto Yochanan [Yehovah has graced], and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with youi beyond Yarden [descender], to whom youi barest witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all [men] come to him.
“The baptism of Yochanan [Yah is gracious] from where was it, from heaven or from men?”. They grieved among themselves saying: ‘What will we say. If we say from heaven, he will say to us: Why did you not believe him?’