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

General references

Bible References

Bare

This man came for testimony so that he might 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 thee beyond the Jordan, about whom thou have testified, behold, this man immerses, and all men come to him.

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

I indeed immerse you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will immerse you in a Holy Spirit.

And he preached, saying, A man mightier than I comes after me of whom I am not worthy, having stooped down, to loosen the strap of his shoes.

John responded, saying to them all, I indeed immerse you in water, but a man mightier than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to unloose the strap of his shoes. He will immerse you in Holy Spirit and fire,

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 came to be, I am.

And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.

LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today, and into the ages.

saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

And to the agent of the congregation in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

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The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Lord. Make his paths straight.

Indeed therefore, also exhorting the people with many other things, he preached the good-news.

This is he about whom I said, After me comes a man who has become before me, because he was before me.

John having earlier proclaimed, before his coming presence, the immersion of repentance to Israel.