Some were glad that sin had no power over this holy man.
Then they sent an old man to him to ask who he really was.

"Are you the Messiah whom we are expecting ?" "I am not the Messiah," answered the preacher.

"But he is coming after me.

I prepare the way for him like the morning breeze ere the sun rises.

As the heaven is above the earth, so is he greater than I.