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What does John 3:23 mean?
"John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized."
— John 3:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
For John was not yet thrown into prison.
There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
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