For which cause also I was hindered very much from coming to you, and have been kept away till now.
And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?