A moment in scripture
John 1:15
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- John 1:13
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.