This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'

 (i) The life of Jesus Christ was a manifestation of glory. When he performed the miracle of the water and the wine at Cana of Galilee, John says that he manifested forth his glory ( John 2:11). To look at Jesus and to experience his power and love was to enter into a new glory. 