(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.