(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.’

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

They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed.