(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)

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

Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’

The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,

But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Before Abraham Was, I Am

The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.

Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany

Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.

And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

The Hatred of the World

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Jesus Before Pilate

Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.