John 3:22-28

22After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.

23John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

24(for John had not yet been put in prison).

25Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.

26And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him."

27John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

28You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.'