Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered, "When you were under that fig tree, before ever Philip called you, I saw you."

The official said, "Come down, sir, before my boy is dead."

The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."

Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them,

"But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?"

And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them.

Now the passover of the Jews was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem, to purify themselves before the passover.

Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

I am telling you this now, before it occurs, so that when it has occurred you may believe who I am.

Jesus replied, "Lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I tell you, before the cock crows, you will have disowned me thrice over.

I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that, when it does occur, you may believe.

now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.