<p>3:27- see on&nbsp;Lk. 1:14.</p><p><i>John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven</i>- The particular thing 'received' here was the Lord's apparent success in preaching. Those who came to the Lord were given to Him by God. John the Baptist understood what is later made explicit in John's Gospel; that nobody can come to the Son unless they are called by the Father (14:6).</p>