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riverbank. His face lighted up, and stretching

out his hands, he said:

“There standeth One among you, whom ye

know not; He it is, who coming after me is

preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I

am not worthy to unloose.” John 1:26, 27.

The people were greatly moved. The Messiah

was among them! They looked about eagerly

to find the One of whom John had spoken. But

Jesus had mingled with the multitude, and

was lost to sight.

The next day John again saw Jesus, and,

pointing to Him, cried: “Behold the Lamb of

God, which taketh away the sin of the world!”

Then John told of the sign that had been seen

at Christ's baptism. “I saw, and bare record,”

he added, “that this is the Son of God.” John

1:29, 34.