John 3:21-29

²¹But whoever does the truth comes to the Light so that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they are done in God.”

²²After these things Jesus, with His disciples, went into the Judean countryside, and there He spent time with them and baptized.

²³Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salem, because there was plenty of water there. And people were coming and being baptized;

²⁴for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

²⁵Then some of John's disciples had an argument with a Judean about purification.

²⁶So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the One who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you have testified—well, here He is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to Him!”

²⁷John answered and said: “A person can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from Heaven.

²⁸You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’

²⁹He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and hears him, has great joy at the bridegroom's voice. So this my joy has been fulfilled.