²⁷John answered and said, ‘A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; ²⁸ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; ²⁹he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

³⁰‘Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; ³¹he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

³²‘And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth; ³³he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true; ³⁴for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit; ³⁵the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; ³⁶he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.’

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