“"And why, when the disciples of Jesus were baptizing, did not John cease to do so? why did he continue to baptize, and that even until he was led to prison? for to say, 'John also was baptizing in Aenon'; and to add, 'John was not yet cast into prison,' was to declare that until that time he did not cease to baptize.…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 29
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23And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
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21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
— John 3:23 —
24For John was not yet cast into prison.
25Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.