And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;

And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:

Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: