Daily Discovery Bible Study

22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into Judea and spent some time with the people, baptizing them.23 John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there and people kept coming to be baptized.24 (This was before John was imprisoned.)25 An argument developed between John's disciples and a Jew over ceremonial purification.26 They went to John and told him, “Rabbi, the man you were with on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you testified in support of—see, now he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!”

27 “No one receives anything unless they're given it from heaven,” John replied.28 “You yourselves can testify that I declared, ‘I'm not the Messiah. I've been sent to prepare his way.’29 The bridegroom is the one who has the bride! The best man waits, listening for the bridegroom, and is so happy when he hears the bridegroom's voice—in the same way my happiness is now complete.30 He must become more important, and I must become less important.”

John 3: 22-30