John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.

Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.

The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,

Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.

Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

They took him before the Pharisees--this man who had been blind.

His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.

Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.

And now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you may have faith.

If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

A number of other signs Jesus did before his disciples which are not recorded in this book: