John 3:23-32

²³And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim; because there was much water there; and they came and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵And there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews concerning purification:

²⁶And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

²⁷John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

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

²⁹He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is above all.

³²And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.