John 3:26
They went to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you have testified, look, he is baptizing, and they are all going to him.”
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25Then there arose a dispute between some of John's disciples and a Jew about ceremonial washing.
27John replied, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Cross References
Psalms 65:2You who hear prayer, 1 to you all flesh will come. 1
Isaiah 45:23By myself I swear, 1 speaking my just decree, and it will not turn back: 1 'To me every knee will bend, every tongue will swear. 1
John 1:7He came as a witness to testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
John 1:15John testified about him and cried out, saying, “This was the one of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am, for he was before me.'”
John 3:2This man came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher that came from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “Look, you can do nothing; see, the world has gone after him.”
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 →