²⁶ 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.'

²⁷ John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

²⁸ ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;