who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

So when Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they retreated and fell to the ground.

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

John testified about him and shouted out, “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’”