John

When the messengers from Yochanan had gone, Yeshua began speaking to the crowds about Yochanan: "What did you go out into the desert to see? Reeds swaying in the breeze?

I tell you that among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than Yochanan the Immerser! Yet the one who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he!"

All the people who heard him, even the tax-collectors, by undergoing Yochanan's immersion acknowledged that God was right;

For Yochanan has come not eating bread and not drinking wine; and you say, `He has a demon!'

Herod the governor heard about all that was going on and was perplexed, because it was said by some that Yochanan had been raised from the dead,

Herod said, “I had Yochanan beheaded, so who is this about whom I keep hearing such things?” And he began trying to see him.

They answered, “Yochanan the Immerser; but others say Eliyahu, and others that some prophet of long ago has risen.”

One time Yeshua was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one of the talmidim said to him, “Sir, teach us to pray, just as Yochanan taught his talmidim.”

Up to the time of Yochanan there were the Torah and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is pushing to get in.

the immersion of Yochanan — was it from Heaven or from a human source?”

But if we say, ‘From a human source,’ all the people will stone us, because they’re convinced that Yochanan was a prophet.”

There was a man sent from God whose name was Yochanan.

Yochanan witnessed concerning him when he cried out, “This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘The one coming after me has come to rank ahead of me, because he existed before me.’”

Here is Yochanan’s testimony: when the Judeans sent cohanim and L’vi’im from Yerushalayim to ask him, “Who are you?”

To them Yochanan replied, “I am immersing people in water, but among you is standing someone whom you don’t know.

All this took place in Beit-Anyah, east of the Yarden, where Yochanan was immersing.

The next day, Yochanan saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, “Look! God’s lamb! The one who is taking away the sin of the world!

Then Yochanan gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and remaining on him.

The next day, Yochanan was again standing with two of his talmidim.

One of the two who had heard Yochanan and had followed Yeshua was Andrew the brother of Shim‘on Kefa.

Yochanan too was immersing at Einayim, near Shalem, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to be immersed.

(This was before Yochanan’s imprisonment.)

A discussion arose between some of Yochanan’s talmidim and a Judean about ceremonial washing;

and they came to Yochanan and said to him, “Rabbi, you know the man who was with you on the other side of the Yarden, the one you spoke about? Well, here he is, immersing; and everyone is going to him!”

Yochanan answered, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from Heaven.