He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Messiah.”
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
Paul said, “Yochanan indeed immersed with the immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Messiah Yeshua.”