Chiasm
John 03:23–32
John 03:23–323 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
- B 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
- C 29 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.
- D 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
- C' 31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
- C 29 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.
- B' 32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
- B 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
- A' 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.