NET
30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’
Darby
30 He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;
KJV
30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.