John 3:27-30

27John replied, ‘A man can receive only what God gives to him, nothing else.

28You yourselves will remember that I said, “I am not the Messiah, but God sent me to prepare things for the Messiah.”

29When a man marries a wife, she belongs to him. The man's special friend listens carefully. He wants to know when the man will arrive. That friend is very happy when he hears the man's voice. I am like that friend, so I am completely happy now.

30Jesus must become greater, but I must become less important.