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

Contemporary English Version
He is the one I told you about when I said, "Someone else will come, who is greater than I am, because he was alive before I was born."

New American Bible
He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’

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.

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

See on ver.

John 1:15,27 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. . . .

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;