John:3:22-36

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* After this Jesus and his disciples went into the countryside of Judea , and there he was staying with them and baptizing . * John also was baptizing in Aenon , near Salim , because there were many streams there , and people kept coming to receive baptism . * (For John had not yet been thrown into prison .) * Then some of Johns disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification ; so they came to John and said to him . * "Rabbi , see ! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan , and to whom you yourself have borne testimony , is now baptizing , and everybody is coming to him ." * In reply John said . "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven . * You yourselves are my witnesses that I said , I am not the Christ , but have been sent before him . * He who has the bride is the bridegroom , but the friend of the bridegroom , who stands and hears him , rejoices greatly because of the bridegrooms voice . So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment . * He must increase , but I must decrease . * "He that comes from above is above all ; but one who is of the earth , of the earth he is , and of the earth he speaks . He who comes from heaven is above all . * He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen , yet no one receives his testimony . * Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true . * For he whom God sent utters the words of God ; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly . * the Father loves the Son and has committed everything into his hands . * Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life , but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life , but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides upon him ."

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