John Chapter 1 verse 30 Holy Bible
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.
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This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.
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He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;
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This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
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This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'
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this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - This is he on behalf of whom I said, After me cometh a man (ἀνήρ is used as a term of higher dignity than ἄνθρωπος, and is made more explicit by the positive appearance of the Holy One whom he had just recognized and pointed out to his disciples) who became before me - in human and other activities under the Old Testament covenant - because he was before me; in the deepest sense, having an eternal self-consciousness, a Divine pre-existence, apart from all his dealings and doings with man (see notes on vers. 15, 26, 27). If the shorter reading of vers. 26, 27 be correct, then the occasion on which this great utterance was first made is not described. If it be not expunged from vers. 26, 27, we may imagine that John is now referring to what he said on the previous day to the Sanhedrim. If internal reasons may help to decide a reading, I should be inclined, with Godet as against Meyer, to say that this is the obvious reference. Here, too, the ὅτι πρῶτός μου η΅ν is added as explanation of what was enigmatical in ver. 26. The whole saying has already found place in the prologue. The threefold citation reveals the profound impression which the words of the Baptist had made upon his most susceptible disciple.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) This is he.--These words meet us here for the third time. They come in John 1:15, and in part in John 1:27. Here, as before, they are a quotation of an earlier and unrecorded statement of the Baptist, uttered in proverbial form, and to be understood in their fulfilment. (Comp. John 3:30.)
