(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)
Иоанн свидетелствует о нем и воззва глаголя: сей бе, егоже рех, иже по мне грядый, предо мною бысть, яко первее мене бе.