January 2, 2013, Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to John    1: 19-28

1:19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him, so that they might ask him, “Who are you?”
1:20 And he confessed it and did not deny it; and what he confessed was: “I am not the Christ.”
1:21 And they questioned him: “Then what are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
1:22 Therefore, they said to him: “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
1:23 He said, “I am a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”
1:24 And some of those who had been sent were from among the Pharisees.
1:25 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?”
1:26 John answered them by saying: “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.
1:27 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.”
1:28 These things happened in Bethania, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

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