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Green's Literal Translation

John 1:30

This is He about whom I said, After me comes a Man who has been before me, for He was preceding me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   John;   Scofield Reference Index - Life;   The Topic Concordance - Baptism;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   John the Baptist;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptize, Baptism;   John the Baptist;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Universalists;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Peter;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bethabara;   Firstborn;   John the Baptist;   Jordan;   Mary, the Virgin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   John;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John the Baptist;   Philip;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Appreciation (of Christ);   Benedictus;   Creator (Christ as);   John the Baptist;   Manuscripts;   Pre-Eminence ;   Pre-Existence;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus christ;   John the apostle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - John the Baptist;   Lamb of God;   Papyrus;   Person of Christ;   Prefer;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - John the Baptist;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
This is the cowboy who I was telling y'all about. Remember when I said, 'He will follow after me, but he existed before I was ever made.'
Legacy Standard Bible
This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who has been ahead of me, for He existed before me.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is He on behalf of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.'
Bible in Basic English
This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.
Darby Translation
He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;
New King James Version
This is He of whom I said, "After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.'
Christian Standard Bible®
This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.'
World English Bible
This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is preferred before me; for he was before me.
Weymouth's New Testament
This is He about whom I said, `After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'
King James Version (1611)
This is he of whom I said, After me commeth a man, which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is he, of whom I sayde vnto you: After me commeth a man, which was before me. For he was or euer I,
Mace New Testament (1729)
this is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man, who was before me: for he did indeed exist before me.
Amplified Bible
"This is He on behalf of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I and has priority over me, for He existed before me.'
American Standard Version
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.
Revised Standard Version
This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.'
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
This is he of whom I sayde. After me cometh a man which was before me for he was yer then I
Update Bible Version
This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who has become before me: for he was before me.
Webster's Bible Translation
This is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man who is preferred before me; for he was before me.
New Century Version
This is the One I was talking about when I said, ‘A man will come after me, but he is greater than I am, because he was living before me.'
New English Translation
This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'
Contemporary English Version
He is the one I told you about when I said, "Someone else will come. He is greater than I am, because he was alive before I was born."
Complete Jewish Bible
This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘After me is coming someone who has come to rank above me, because he existed before me.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
This is he of whom I saide, After me commeth a man, which was before me: for he was better then I.
George Lamsa Translation
This is the one of whom I said, The man who comes after me is yet ahead of me, because he was before me.
Hebrew Names Version
This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'
International Standard Version
This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.'John 1:15,27;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
This is he concerning whom I said, After me cometh a man, and he was before me, because he is anterior to me.
Murdock Translation
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man, who is before me, for he was prior to me.
New Living Translation
He is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘A man is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before me.'
New Life Bible
I have been talking about Him. I said, ‘One is coming after me Who is more important than I, because He lived before I was born.'
English Revised Version
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is become before me: for he was before me.
Berean Standard Bible
This is He of whom I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.'
New Revised Standard
This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is he, of whom, I, said - After me, cometh a man, who, before me, hath advanced, because, my Chief, was he.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.
King James Version
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Lexham English Bible
This one is the one about whom I said, ‘After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is he of whom I sayde, After me commeth a man, which is preferred before me, for he was before me.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘There is a man coming after me who is greater than I am, because he was living even before I was born.'
English Standard Version
This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.'
New American Standard Bible
"This is He in behalf of whom I said, 'After me is coming a Man who has proved to be my superior, because He existed before me.'
Good News Translation
This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘A man is coming after me, but he is greater than I am, because he existed before I was born.'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is he, that Y seide of, Aftir me is comun a man, which was maad bifor me; for he was rather than Y.
Young's Literal Translation
this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

Contextual Overview

29 On the morrow, John sees Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold! The Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world! 30 This is He about whom I said, After me comes a Man who has been before me, for He was preceding me. 31 And I did not know Him; but that He be revealed to Israel, for this reason I came baptizing in water. 32 And John witnessed, saying, I have seen the Spirit coming down as a dove out of Heaven, and He abode on Him. 33 And I did not know Him, but the One sending me to baptize in water, that One said to me, On whomever you see the Spirit coming down and abiding on Him, this is the One baptizing in the Holy Spirit. 34 And I have seen and have witnessed that this One is the Son of God. 35 Again on the morrow, John and two from his disciples stood. 36 And looking at Jesus walking, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 1:15, John 1:27, Luke 3:16

Reciprocal: Matthew 3:11 - but Luke 20:5 - Why John 3:31 - is above

Cross-References

Genesis 1:15
And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great luminaries: the great luminary to rule the day, and the small luminary and the stars to rule the night.
Genesis 9:3
Every creeping thing which is alive shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green plant.
Job 39:4
Their sons are strong; they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them.
Job 39:8
he seeks out mountains for his pasture; and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:30
And his young brood also sucks up blood; and where the pierced ones are , there he is .
Job 40:15
Now behold Behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox;
Job 40:20
For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the service of man, to bring food out of the earth.
Psalms 147:9
He gives the animals their food, to the young ravens that cry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is he, of whom it is said,.... Either the day before, as in John 1:27, or some time before that, John 1:15, when he first began to baptize, even before Christ came to be baptized by him, and before he personally knew him; see Matthew 3:11.

After me cometh a man; not a mere man, but the man God's fellow: and this is said, not because he was now a grown man, or to show the truth of his human nature; but seems to be a common Hebraism, and is all one as if it had been said, "after me cometh one", or a certain person: for the sense of this phrase, and what follows,

see Gill "Joh 1:15".


 
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