John 1:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵John 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.

John 1:15 —

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Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Micah 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-18)

In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist’s testimony concerning Christ, John 1:15. He had said (John 1:8) that he came for a witness; now here he tells us that he did accordingly bear witness. Here, Observe, 1. How he expressed his testimony: He cried, according to the prediction that he should be the voice of one crying. The Old-Testament prophets cried aloud, to sh…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. after me--in official manifestation. before me--in rank and dignity. for he was before me--in existence; “His goings forth being from of old, from everlasting” (Mi 5:2). (Anything lower than this His words cannot mean); that is, “My Successor is my Superior, for He was my Predecessor.” This enigmatic play upon the different senses of the words “before” and “after” was doubtless employed by the…