(John bears witness to him; he cried aloud--for it was he who spoke--"'He who is Coming' after me is now before me, for he was ever first");

It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.'

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

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

"Sir," said the officer, "come down before my child dies." And Jesus answered: "Go, your son is living."

"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me."

"Is this a hindrance to you? What, then, if you should see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "before Abraham existed I was."

"Then, Sir, I do believe," said the man, bowing to the ground before him;

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

And seeing this, Jesus said: "I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?"

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

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

But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

For the future I shall tell you of things before they take place, so that, when they take place, you may believe that I am what I am.

And this I have told you now before it happens, that, when it does happen, you may still believe in me.

And now do thou honor me, Father, at thy own side, with the honor which I had at thy side before the world began.

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.