He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him, saying, Why then do you immerse if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?

It is He who, arriving after me, appeared in history before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.

He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.

Behold, I send My messenger, and He will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Remember the Law of My servant Moses which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and judgments.

Behold, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Jehovah.

For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.

I indeed immerse you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire;

whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the granary; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

As it is written in the Prophets: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.

And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.