Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
He was
General references
Bible References
Bare
John 1:7
This man came as a witness, to testify of the Light, that all through him might believe.
John 3:26
And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony, behold, he immerses, and all are going to him.
John 5:33
You sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth.
Matthew 3:11
I immerse you in water, in order to repentance; but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:
Mark 1:7
and he preached, saying: There comes after me One mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.
Luke 3:16
John answered them all, saying: I indeed immerse you in water; but there comes One mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loose; he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.
He was
John 1:1
IN the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD. was with God, and the WORD was God.
John 8:58
Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I was.
John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Philippians 2:6
who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;
Colossians 1:17
and he is before all things, and by him all things consist:
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.
Revelation 1:11
saying: What you see, write in a book, and send to the seven churches; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
Revelation 2:8
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:
General references
Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Luke 3:18
With many other exhortations he proclaimed the good news to the people.
John 1:30
This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who is now before me, for he existed before me.
Acts 13:24
John having first preached, before his coming, the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.