John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."

"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

"Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"

"In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am."

"When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.

So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.

"Your life you will lay down for me? In solemn truth I tell you, the cock shall not crow before you have three times disowned me."

"And now I tell you this before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.

"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.