John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah

¹⁹ Now this was John’s^(A) testimony when the Jewish leaders^[a](B) in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

¹³ But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.^(A)

²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,^(A) who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out^(B) of the synagogue.^(C)

¹² Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials^(A) arrested Jesus. They bound him

¹⁴ Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one man died for the people.^(A)