(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.

John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

John testified about him and shouted out, “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’”