23Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
24(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.
— John 3:23-25

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