John testified about him. He shouted out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

You yourselves bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Messiah,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Nicodemus (he who came to him before, being one of them) said to them,

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was a beggar before, said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

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

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

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

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him,

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would 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 this now before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe that I am he.

Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.