John 3:23-25

Amplified Bible

²³Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there; and people were coming and were being baptized— ²⁴for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

²⁵Therefore there arose a controversy between John’s disciples and a Jew in regard to ^[a]purification (ceremonial washing).

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Footnotes

John 3:25 An immersion baptism was one of the requirements for a convert to Judaism, and John the Baptist had most likely taken over the ritual, giving it new meaning in his own ministry. Jewish tradition specified that there had to be enough water to completely cover a person, and that it had to be collected naturally.