21 And they questioned him, ‘What then? Elijah art thou?’ and he saith, ‘I am not.’ — ‘The prophet art thou?’ and he answered, ‘No.’

22 They said then to him, ‘Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?’

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.’