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John 3:27
John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;
John 3:27 · Young's Literal Translation
John 3:27 in other translations
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
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In context
24 for John was not yet cast into the prison--
25 there arose then a question from the disciples of John with some Jews about purifying,
26 and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'
27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;
28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;
29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.
30 `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;
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