John 1:30

30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is really greater than me because he existed before me.'

John 1:30 Meaning and Commentary

John 1:30

This is he, of whom it is said
Either the day before, as in ( John 1:27 ) , or some time before that, ( John 1:15 ) , when he first began to baptize, even before Christ came to be baptized by him, and before he personally knew him; see ( Matthew 3:11 Matthew 3:13 ) .

After me cometh a man;
not a mere man, but the man God's fellow: and this is said, not because he was now a grown man, or to show the truth of his human nature; but seems to be a common Hebraism, and is all one as if it had been said, "after me cometh one", or a certain person: for the sense of this phrase, and what follows, (See Gill on John 1:15).

John 1:30 In-Context

28 This encounter took place across the Jordan in Bethany where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is really greater than me because he existed before me.'
31 Even I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be made known to Israel."
32 John testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it rested on him.
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