So they came to John and told him, ‘Rabbi, the one you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptising #– #and everyone is going to him.’
(John testified concerning him and exclaimed, ‘This was the one of whom I said, “The one coming after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.” ’)
This man came to him at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.’