Coverdale(i)
23 Ihon baptysed also in Enon besyde Salem: for there was moch water there. And they came thither, and were baptysed:
24 for Iohn was not yet put in preson.
25 Then arose there a question amonge the disciples of Ihon with the Iewes aboute the purifienge,
26 and they came vnto Ihon, and sayde vnto him: Master, he yt was with the beyonde Iordan, of whom thou barest wytnesse, beholde, he baptyseth, and euery man cometh vnto him.
27 Ihon answered and sayde: A man can receaue nothinge, excepte it be geuen him from heaue.
28 Ye youreselues are my witnesses, how that I sayde, I am not Christ, but am sent before him.
29 He that hath the bryde, is the brydegrome: but the frende of the brydegrome stondeth, and herkeneth vnto him, and reioyseth greatly ouer the voyce of the brydegrome, this same ioye of myne is now fulfilled.
30 He must increace, but I must decreace.
31 He that commeth from an hye, is aboue all. He that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth. He that commeth fro heauen, is aboue all,
32 and testifieth what he hath sene & herde, and no man receaueth his wytnesse.
33 But he that receaueth it, hath set to his seale, that God is true.
34 For he who God hath sent, speaketh ye wordes of God: for God geueth not the sprete (vnto him) by measure.
35 The father loueth the sonne, and hath geuen him all thinges in to his hande.
36 He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastinge life: he that beleueth not the sonne, shal not se the life, but ye wrath of God abydeth vpon him.