John 1:15

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Summary

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

Bare

He was

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Bible References

Bare

this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;

and they came unto John, and said to him, 'Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.

'I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

and he proclaimed, saying, 'He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;

John answered, saying to all, 'I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

He was

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.

For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, 'What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

'And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

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A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,

this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;