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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Bible References

Bare

This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

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

I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is more powerful than I [am], whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

And he was preaching, saying, "One [who is] more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down [and] untie the strap of his sandals.

John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than I [am] is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the 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 was, I am!"

And now, Father, you glorify me {at your side} with the glory that I had {at your side} before the world existed.

"Yahweh possessed me, [the] first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.

For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, [too] small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins [are] from of old, from ancient days.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,

and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together,

Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today and {forever}.

saying, "What you see, write in a book 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: "This is what the first and the last says, who was dead and came to life:

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the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!'"

So with many other exhortations also he proclaimed good news to the people.

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

Before {his coming} John had publicly proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.