GOSPEL*```Someone you do not know stands among you.```*🕯A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (1:6-8, 19-28)*

*📖GOSPEL*

```Someone you do not know stands among you.```

*🕯A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (1:6-8, 19-28)*

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness,

to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was 

not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. And this is the 

testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to 

ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am 

not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I 

am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, 

“Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you 

say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the 

wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” 

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) They asked him, “Then why 

are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” 

John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you 

do not know, even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am 

not worthy to untie.” These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, 

where John was baptizing. 

*The Gospel of the Lord.* 

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