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
to testify of the light, that all thro' it might believe.
John 3:26
And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John 5:33
Ye sent to John, and he bare testimony to the truth.
Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I; whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Mark 1:7
And proclaimed, saying, There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Luke 3:16
whether he were not the Christ, John answered saying to them all, I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
He was
John 1:1
In the beginning existed the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, Verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify thou 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, thought it not robbery to be equal with God;
Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist, And he is the head of his body the church;
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to day and for ever.
Revelation 1:11
and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet, Saying, what thou seest, 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 of Smyrna write, These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive.
General references
Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Luke 3:18
And many other things in his exhortation preached he to the people.
John 1:30
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is preferred before me; for he was before me.
Acts 13:24
John having first preached before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.