Catholic Public Domain Version
"This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me arrives a man, who has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ "
— John 1:30, Catholic Public Domain Version
“This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.”
“This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me. ”
“This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'”
“This is the one about whom I said,‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’”
“This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.”
“This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.”
“This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.”
The same is he who is to come after me, who has been placed ahead of me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen.”
These things happened in Bethania, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
On the next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and so he said: “Behold, the Lamb of God. Behold, he who takes away the sin of the world.
This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me arrives a man, who has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.’
And I did not know him. Yet it is for this reason that I come baptizing with water: so that he may be made manifest in Israel.”
And John offered testimony, saying: “For I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove; and he remained upon him.
And I did not know him. But he who sent me to baptize with water said to me: ‘He over whom you will see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him, this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’