John 3:27-31

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁷ John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

²⁸ You yourselves do bear me witness, that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹ He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹ He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is above all.