John 1:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ This is He of Whom I said, After me comes a Man Who has priority over me [Who takes rank above me] because He was before me and existed before I did.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.

Common English Bible

³⁰ This is the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is really greater than me because he existed before me.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ 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.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ This is he, of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.

John 1:30 Cross References

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Luke 3:16

John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

John 1:15

(John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ ”)

John 1:27

the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal.”

John 1:31

I myself did not know him, but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel.”

John 10:41

Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”