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John 3:20-28 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

20. for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

21. but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

22. After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

23. and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized--

24. for John was not yet cast into the prison--

25. there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying,

26. 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.'

27. John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

28. ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

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