Then there arose Better, there arose therefore; i.e. in consequence of John's baptizing at Aenon.

a question Or, questioning.

between some of John's disciples and the Jews Better, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew. -A Jew" for -Jews" is the reading of the best authorities. We do not know what the question was; probably the efficacy of John's baptism as compared with Christ's, or as compared with the ordinary ceremonial washings, for purifying from sin. There is no clue as to who this Jew was. His question makes the disciples of John go at once to their master for his opinion about Jesus and His success.

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