“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:22–25 (ESV)
John the Baptist Exalts Christ
22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized