This is the record of John,
when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him:
Who art thou? and he confessed and denied not, and said plainly :
I am not the Christ. and they asked him:
What art thou then? Art thou Elias? and he said: I am not,
Art thou the prophet? and he answer'd: No.
Then said they unto him: What art thou?
that we may give an answer unto them that sent us.
What say'st thou of thyself ?
and he said: I am the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness:
Make straight the way of the Lord.