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John 1:26
John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
John 1:26 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 1:26 in other translations
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
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In context
23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.
24 And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
26 John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
27 The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.
28 These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.
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