King James Version with Apocrypha
"This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me."
— John 1:30, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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.”
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.