John 3:22-36 - Additional Testimony By John The Baptist About Jesus
22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the countryside of Judea, and there he was staying with them and baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many streams there, and people kept coming to receive baptism. 24 (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25 Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him. 26 "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."
27 In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.' 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 "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. 32 He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony. 33 Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God sent utters the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly. 35 the Father loves the Son and has committed everything into his hands. 36 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."