19 Bible Verses about People Going Before

And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

And they were asking Him, saying, "How is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

And He said to them, "Elijah, indeed, comes first, and restores all things; and how it has been written concerning the Son of Man, that He should suffer many things, and be set at naught;

And he will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

Ye yourselves bear me testimony, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but that I have been sent before Him.'

"And you also, child, shall be called 'Prophet of the Most High;' for you shall go before the face of the Lord, to prepare His ways;

This is he concerning whom it has been written, 'Behold, I send forth My messenger before Thy face, who will prepare Thy way before Thee.'

Which of the two did the will of the father?" They say, "The last." Jesus saith to them, "Verily I say to you that the tax-collectors and the harlots are going into the Kingdom of God before you.

The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no one, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but, while I am coming, another goes down before me!"

For this we say to You, in a word of the Lord, that we, the living who remain over to the coming of the Lord, shall in nowise precede those who fell asleep;

Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others; and sent them away, two and two, before His face, into every city and place, whither He Himself was about to come.

and He sent forth messengers before His face; and, journeying onward, they entered into a village of Samaritans, so as to prepare for Him.

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that this may be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness.

When he drives out all his own, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him; because they know his voice.

And straightway He constrained the disciples to enter into a boat, and to go before Him to the other side, while He should dismiss the multitudes.

And those going before, and those following, were crying, "Hosanna! Blessed is He That cometh in the name of the Lord!

And these, having gone before, were waiting for us at Troas;

And we, going before to the ship, set sail for Assos, there intending to take up Paul; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot.