21 And they questioned him, "What then? Elijah are you?" and he said, "I am not." -- "The prophet are you?" and he answered, "No."

22 They said then to him, "Who are you, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what do you say concerning yourself?"

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