John 3:27-30 ▼

27 John answered and said, “A man is not able to receive anything if it may not have been given him from Heaven;

28 you yourselves 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, rejoices with joy because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy has been fulfilled.

30 It is necessary [for] Him to increase, and me to become less;