Catholic Public Domain Version
"John answered them by saying: “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know. "
— John 1:26, Catholic Public Domain Version
“John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;”
“John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the midst of you standeth one 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 with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,”
“John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.”
“John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;”
“John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;”
He said, “I am a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”
And some of those who had been sent were from among the Pharisees.
And they questioned him and said to him, “Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the Prophet?”
John answered them by saying: “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.
The same is he who is to come after me, who has been placed ahead of me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen.”
These things happened in Bethania, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
On the next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and so he said: “Behold, the Lamb of God. Behold, he who takes away the sin of the world.