In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

John answered them, saying, 'I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

Nathaniel said to him: How knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig-tree, I saw you.

Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

Jacob's [spring-fed] well was there so Jesus, tired from His [long] journey, sat down beside the well just as He was [i.e., before doing anything else]. It was about six o'clock in the morning [Note: This would have been

Are you not [always] saying, 'There are still four months before harvest time comes'? Look, I am telling you [disciples], lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white and ripe for harvest [i.e., people are ready to make a spiritual response].

The courtier saith unto him, 'Sir, come down before my child die;'

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

Do not think that I [am the One who] will accuse you before the Father. There [already] is one who accuses you: Moses, [the very one] in whom you have placed your hope [for salvation].

for it was just before the passover, which is a feast of the Jews.

What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

for no one does any thing in secret, while he himself seeks to be before the public. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.

The officers answered, Never did man before speak in such a manner as this man.

Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),

Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

Now the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. They made her stand in the center of the court,

They listened [to His reply], and they began to go out one by one, starting with the oldest ones, until He was left alone, with the woman [standing there before Him] in the center of the court.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

They bring him who was before blind to the Pharisees.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One thing I know, that, being blind before, now I see.

His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

and he said, 'I believe, sir,' and bowed before him.

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

but, as I said before, you do not believe; because ye are not of my sheep.

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?"

and went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John before had baptised, and there abode.

Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.

And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

So, Jesus said to them, "The Light will be among you for only a little while [longer]. Walk around while you [still] have the Light [with you], before darkness surrounds you. For the person who walks around in darkness does not know where he is going.

But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

Jesus answered, “Will you [really] lay down your life for Me? I assure you and most solemnly say to you, before a rooster crows you will deny and completely disown Me three times.

And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

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

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

but Peter stood outside before the door. So this other disciple, who was acquainted with the high priest, stepped out and spoke to the woman doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

So when Pilate heard this said, he was [even] more alarmed and afraid.

noon] on the Day of Preparation for the Passover Festival. [Note: This would be the day before the Passover Festival]. And Pilate said to the Jews, "Look, [here is] your king!"

it was then about the sixth hour of the day before the sabbath of the passover: and he said to the Jews, behold your king.

Now it was the Day of Preparation [Note: This was the day before the Passover Festival began, and fell on a Friday that year], and the Jews did not permit bodies to remain on a cross over the Sabbath day. (Besides, that Sabbath day was a special day [i.e., since it was both the Passover and the regular weekly Sabbath, as well]). So, they asked Pilate to have Jesus' and the criminals' legs broken [i.e., to speed up their deaths] and then have their bodies taken away.

So, they placed Jesus' body there, for it was the Day of Preparation and that was the closest grave site. [Note: Since this was the day before the Passover Festival, and the next day was also the regular weekly Sabbath, they had to bury the body before sundown to comply with Jewish restrictions against working on a Sabbath day].

but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached it before he did.

For they did not before understand the scripture, that He must rise from the dead.

And after eight days his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: and Jesus came (the doors being shut as before) and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you.

Many other signs therefore also Jesus did before his disciples, which are not written in this book;