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22 Therefore, they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am (A)a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the [a]Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

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  1. John 1:23 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 40:3

22 Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3