John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),