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23 John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim,[a] because there was an abundance of water there, and people came to be baptized, 24 [b](A)for John had not yet been imprisoned. 25 Now a dispute arose between the disciples of John and a Jew[c] about ceremonial washings.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:23 Aenon near Salim: site uncertain, either in the upper Jordan valley or in Samaria.
  2. 3:24 A remark probably intended to avoid objections based on a chronology like that of the synoptics (Mt 4:12; Mk 1:14).
  3. 3:25 A Jew: some think Jesus is meant. Many manuscripts read “Jews.”