John 1:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, for 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 he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Luke 3:16

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

John 1:15

(John bore witness to him, and cried, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.’ ”)

John 1:27

even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”

John 1:31

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

John 10:41

And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”