Ye yourselves are witnesses, how that I said: I am not Christ: but am sent before him.
And he confessed, and denied not, and said plainly: I am not Christ.
he said: I am the voice of a crier in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esayas.
This is he of whom it is spoken by the prophet Isay, which saith: The voice of a crier in wilderness, prepare the Lord's way, and make his paths straight.
And they asked him, and said unto him: why baptisest thou then, if thou be not Christ, nor Helias, neither a prophet?
And thou child, shalt be called the prophet of the highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways:
he it is that cometh after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unloose.