That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by yoʋ, and do yoʋ come to me?”
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but have been hindered until the present time) so that I might have some fruit among you as well, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.