John 3:20-32

²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

²¹However, he who practices the truth comes to the light so that it may be plainly seen that his deeds have been done in God.”

²²After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea. There he spent some time with them and baptized.

²³Now John was also baptizing in Aenon near to Salim because there was much water there. People were coming to him and were being baptized,

²⁴for John had not yet been thrown in prison.

²⁵Then there arose a dispute between some of John's disciples and a Jew about ceremonial washing.

²⁶They went to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you have testified, look, he is baptizing, and they are all going to him.”

²⁷John replied, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but instead, 'I have been sent before him.'

²⁹The bride belongs to the bridegroom. Now the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. This, then, is my joy made complete.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks about the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³²He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.