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John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
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Verse 15. Is preferred before me. [4] Lit. is made before me. The sense, says Saint John Chrysostom is, that he is greater in dignity, deserves greater honour, and so forth though born after me, he was from eternity. Witham.
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