John 1:15
“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.”
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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.
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Related Verses
“This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.”
“He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”
“John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;”
“And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.”
“Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.”