22. After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the countryside of Judea. There he spent some time with them. And he baptized people there.
23. John was also baptizing. He was at Aenon near Salim, where there was plenty of water. People were coming all the time to be baptized.
24. That was before John was put in prison.
25. Some of John's disciples and a certain Jew began to argue. They argued about special washings to make people "clean."
26. They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River is baptizing people. He is the one you gave witness about. Everyone is going to him."
27. John replied, "A person can receive only what God gives him from heaven.
28. You yourselves are witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ. I was sent ahead of him.'