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Jn 1:15b ... "The One coming after me, in front of me has become, because prior to me, he was."

The third through sixth phrases contain these 11 dialog words, ... ho opisō mou erchomenos, euprosthen mou gegonen, hoti prōtos mou, ēn ("The One after me coming, in front of me has become, because prior to me, he was").

The 11 words are bottom up. These 4 phrases are a mix of present and past tenses as well as a drawing instruction on where to place John and Jesus in this diagram. The 4 words "The one after me coming" means these 4 words are tangent to John inside the first triangle and to the empty second white triangle. According to the gospel of Luke, Jesus was born 6 months after John. The 3 words "in front of me has become" are tangent to the second triangle and to Jesus inside the third white triangle, which confirms John 1:15a. The last 4 words of phrases 5 and 6 are "because prior to me, he was." The dialog word "mou" (to me) refers to the speaker John in the bottom white triangle. The word "ēn" (he was) must therefore be tangent to the Nazarene Jesus inside the third triangle and the Triune Jesus in the top white triangle.

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