Joh 1:30-31 | ESV | STEP | This is he of whom I said , After me comes a man who ranks before me , because he was before me .

John 1:30-31

30 This is he of whom I said, ^a‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but ^bfor this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”