{"reference":"John 1:23-27","verses":[{"book_id":"JHN","book_name":"John","chapter":1,"verse":23,"text":"He said, I\nam the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.\n"},{"book_id":"JHN","book_name":"John","chapter":1,"verse":24,"text":"And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.\n"},{"book_id":"JHN","book_name":"John","chapter":1,"verse":25,"text":"And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?\n"},{"book_id":"JHN","book_name":"John","chapter":1,"verse":26,"text":"John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;\n"},{"book_id":"JHN","book_name":"John","chapter":1,"verse":27,"text":"He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.\n"}],"text":"He said, I\nam the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.\nAnd they which were sent were of the Pharisees.\nAnd they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?\nJohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;\nHe it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.\n","translation_id":"kjv","translation_name":"King James Version","translation_note":"Public Domain"}