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→Testimony of John the Baptist to Jesus: added Acts 19:3-7
:And they came unto John, and said unto him Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptized, and all ''men'' come to him.
:And they came unto John, and said unto him Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptized, and all ''men'' come to him.
:John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, tut that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I ''must'' decrease.
:John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, tut that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I ''must'' decrease.
Acts 19:3-7
:And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized. And they said, Unto John's baptism.
:Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
:When they heard ''this'', they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied<ref>In 1 Corinthians 14:22 Paul states that "tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not". Acts 19:1-2 testifies that these were disciples, but that they had not believed in the Holy Spirit, because they had not heard that there is a Holy Spirit. The tongues were a sign to the believers in John, who had been unbelievers in the Holy Spirit, of the truth of the Gospel Paul taught them about John's testimony to Jesus. In Acts 10:45 they of the circumcision party of the Jews who believed in Jesus "were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost." The tongues were a sign to the circumcised believers in Jesus, who were unbelievers in the salvation of the Gentiles, by the giving of the Holy Spirit to Gentiles, of the truth that even the Gentiles were granted salvation: "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." Acts 11:18.</ref>
== John's doubts about Jesus ==
== John's doubts about Jesus ==