19. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
21. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
22. After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
23. Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized.
24. (This was before John was put in prison.)
25. An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.
26. They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”
27. To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.