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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Bare

This came for testimony, that he might testify concerning the Light, that all might believe through him.

And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou hast testified, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.

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

I truly immerse you in water to repentance; but he coming after me is stronger than I, whose shoes I am not fit to lift up; he shall immerse in the Holy Spirit, and fire

And he proclaimed, saying, The stronger than I comes after me, of whom I am not sufficient, having bent the head, to loose the strings of his shoes.

John answered to all, saying, I truly immerse you with water; and he stronger than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to loose his shoes' strings: he shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit and fire:

He was

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

And Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

And now, honour thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the honour which I had with thee before the world was.

Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.

For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace.

And thou, house of bread, of Ephratah, for being small among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth to me he being ruler in Israel; and his goings forth from of old from the days of eternity.

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

And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day the same, and for ever.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which 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 church of the Smyrnians write; Thus says the first and the last, who was dead and he lived;

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A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his beaten paths straight.

And then truly many other things beseeching, he evangelized the people.

This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who was before me: for he was before me.

John having proclaimed before the face of his coming the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.