John 3:27
John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
In Context
28You yourselves bear witness that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’
Cross References
Matthew 25:15And to the one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.
Mark 13:34It is like a man going away on a journey, having left his house and having given authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.
Romans 12:6Having then gifts differing according to the grace having been given to us, let us use them: whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Matthew Henry on John 3:23-36
John's Testimony to Christ. 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest… Read the whole commentary →