There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name is John,

John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, 'This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, 'Who art thou?'

John answered them, saying, 'I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

And John testified, saying -- 'I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;

On the morrow, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed him;

and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --

for John was not yet cast into the prison --

there arose then a question from the disciples of John with some Jews about purifying,

and they came unto John, and said to him, 'Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.

'But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,

and many came unto him, and said -- 'John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'