John 1:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ἰωάννης μαρτυρεῖ περὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κέκραγεν, λέγων, Οὗτος ἦν ὃν εἶπον, Ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν: ὅτι πρῶτός μου ἦν.

Transliteration

Iōannēs martyrei concerning autou, and kekragen, legōn, Houtos ēn whom I eipon, The one opisō mou erchomenos emprosthen mou gegonen: because prōtos mou ēn.

Grammar Details

• *Iōannēs*: nominative masculine singular - John
• *martyrei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular of *martyreō* - testifies/bears witness
• *autou*: genitive masculine singular pronoun - of him/about him
• *kekragen*: perfect active indicative 3rd person singular of *krazō* - has cried out
• *legōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular of *legō* - saying
• *Houtos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative masculine singular - this one/he
• *ēn*: imperfect active indicative 3rd person singular of *eimi* - was
• *eipon*: aorist active indicative 1st person singular of *legō* - I said
• *opisō*: preposition with genitive - after/behind
• *mou*: genitive 1st person singular pronoun - of me/my
• *erchomenos*: present middle/passive participle, nominative masculine singular of *erchomai* - coming
• *emprosthen*: preposition with genitive - before/ahead of
• *gegonen*: perfect active indicative 3rd person singular of *ginomai* - has become
• *prōtos*: nominative masculine singular - first/chief

Word Meanings

• *martyrei*: testifies/bears witness/gives evidence
• *kekragen*: has cried out/proclaimed/called out (intensive perfect)
• *opisō*: after/behind/following
• *erchomenos*: coming/following
• *emprosthen*: before/ahead of/in front of
• *gegonen*: has become/has come to be/has taken precedence
• *prōtos*: first/before/chief/foremost

Referenced Verses

• Matt 3:11 : 11 `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
• John 1:1-2 : 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; 2 this one was in the beginning with God;
• John 1:29-34 : 29 on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world; 30 this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me: 31 and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing. 32 And John testified, saying -- `I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him; 33 and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit; 34 and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'
• John 3:26-36 : 26 and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.' 27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; 28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; 29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled. 30 `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; 31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all. 32 `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth; 33 he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true; 34 for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit; 35 the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; 36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
• John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'
• John 17:5 : 5 `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
• Col 1:17 : 17 and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
• Mic 5:2 : 2 And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth `are' of old, From the days of antiquity.
• Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;
• Rev 1:11 : 11 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'
• Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
• Rev 2:8 : 8 `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;
• Phil 2:6-7 : 6 who, being in the form of God, thought `it' not robbery to be equal to God, 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
• John 5:33-36 : 33 ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth. 34 `But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that ye may be saved; 35 he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light. 36 `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.
• John 1:7-8 : 7 this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him; 8 that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.
• John 1:27 : 27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'
• Prov 8:22 : 22 Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
• Isa 9:6 : 6 For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
• Matt 3:13-17 : 13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him, 14 but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!' 15 But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him. 16 And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him, 17 and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, `This is My Son -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'
• Mark 1:7 : 7 and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;
• Luke 3:16 : 16 John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;