John 3:21-29

²¹but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he abode with them and baptised.

²³And John also was baptising in Aenon, near Salim, because there was a great deal of water there; and they came to him and were baptised:

²⁴for John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵There was therefore a reasoning of the disciples of John with a Jew about purification.

²⁶And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, he baptises, and all come to him.

²⁷John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it be given him out of heaven.

²⁸Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.

²⁹He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.