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John 1:26
“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
John 1:26 · Berean Standard Bible
John 1:26 in other translations
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you do not know.
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In context
23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent
25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
28 All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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