John 3:23-27

Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there; and people were coming and being baptized—

for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

Then a matter of dispute developed on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.

And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing and all the people are coming to Him.”

John replied, “A person can receive not even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven.