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21 “Well then, who are you?” they asked. “Are you Elijah?”

“No,” he replied.

“Are you the Prophet we are expecting?”[a]

“No.”

22 “Then who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?”

23 John replied in the words of the prophet Isaiah:

“I am a voice shouting in the wilderness,
    ‘Clear the way for the Lord’s coming!’”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:21 Greek Are you the Prophet? See Deut 18:15, 18; Mal 4:5-6.
  2. 1:23 Isa 40:3.

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