He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Messiah.”
The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.Matthew 12:41 NIV
They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”John 1:21 NIV
Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.John 1:19 NIV