Yochanan 3:24-28

²⁴for Yochanan was not yet thrown into prison.

²⁵Therefore a dispute arose on the part of Yochanan’s disciples with some Judeans about purification.

²⁶They came to Yochanan and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he immerses, and everyone is coming to him.”

²⁷Yochanan answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’