21 But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.
22 Later, Jesus and his disciples went to Judea, where he stayed with them for a while and was baptizing people.
23-24 John had not yet been put in jail. He was at Aenon near Salim, where there was a lot of water, and people were coming there for John to baptize them.
25 John's followers got into an argument with a Jewish man about a ceremony of washing.
26 They went to John and said, “Rabbi, you spoke about a man when you were with him east of the Jordan. He is now baptizing people, and everyone is going to him.”
27 John replied:No one can do anything unless God in heaven allows it.
28 Surely you remember how I told you that I am not the Messiah. I am only the one sent ahead of him.