John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

Nicodemus—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,