They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
      4. It is noted (John 3:24; John 3:24) that John was not yet cast into prison, to clear the order of the story, and to show that these passages are to come in before Matthew 6:12. John never desisted from his work as long as he had his liberty; nay, he seems to have been the more industrious, because he foresaw his time was short; he was not yet cast into prison, but he expected it ere long, John 9:4; John 9:4.