John 1:30
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
KJV
οὗτός ἐστιν ὑπὲρ οὗ ἐγὼ εἶπον· ὀπίσω μου ἔρχεται ἀνὴρ ὃς ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν, ὅτι πρῶτός μου ἦν.
Greek NT
Hic est de quo dixi : Post me venit vir qui ante me factus est : quia prior me erat :
Vulgate
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.
ASV
This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πρῶτος
protos
adjective · 101×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἔμπροσθεν
emprosthen
adverb · 48×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὀπίσω
opiso
adverb · 35×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑπέρ
uper
preposition · 148×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὑπὲρ | WH/Treg/NIV: ὑπὲρ | RP: περὶ
- ὑπὲρ — SBLGNT
- ὑπὲρ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- περὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Commentary on the Gospel of John · 2 passages
1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…
1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…
Cross-references
- 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.
- John 1:27 — He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
- John 1:27 — He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
- John 3:31 — He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
- Luke 3:16 — John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost an
- Matt 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: