John 3:22-27

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.