John

And the messengers of John having gone away, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John: `What have ye gone forth to the wilderness to look on? a reed by the wind shaken?

for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.'

And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

`For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, `Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

the law and the prophets are till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'

and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

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;