New Revised Standard Version
(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.’”)

Contemporary English Version
John spoke about him and shouted, "This is the one I told you would come! He is greater than I am, because he was alive before I was born."

New American Bible
John testified to him and cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.

John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.

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John 1:7,8,29-34 This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him. . . .

John 3:26-36 And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony: behold, he baptizeth and all men come to him. . . .

John 5:33-36 You sent to John: and he gave testimony to the truth. . . .

Matthew 3:11,13-17 I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire. . . .

Mark 1:7 And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;

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John 1:1,2,30 In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God. . . .

John 8:58 Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM.

John 17:5 And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

Proverbs 8:22 I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.

Isaiah 9:6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Micah 5:2 Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Philippians 2:6,7 Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: . . .

Colossians 1:17 And he is before all: and by him all things consist.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Revelation 1:11,17,18 Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. . . .

Revelation 2:8 And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive: