John 1:15

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John 1:15

John *testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’”

Matthew 3:11

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Proverbs 8:22

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.

Isaiah 9:6

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.
His goings forth are from long ago,
From the days of eternity.”

Matthew 3:13-17

Then Jesus *arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John, to be baptized by him.

Mark 1:7

And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.

Luke 3:16

John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

John 1:1-2

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

John 1:7-8

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

John 1:27

It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”

John 1:29-34

The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 3:26-36

And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”

John 5:33-36

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”

John 17:5

Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

Philippians 2:6-7

who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Colossians 1:17

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:17-18

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,

Revelation 2:8

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:

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Summary

John 1:15

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

General references

Bible References

Bare

He came

as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.

He was

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

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”

Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.

His goings forth are from long ago,

From the days of eternity.”

who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:

The first and the last, who

was dead, and has come to life, says this:

General references

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.’”

So with many other exhortations he preached the gospel to the people.

This is He on behalf of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’

after John had proclaimed before His coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.