to go/bring before
Proago describes going ahead of others, and in some settings bringing someone out before others.
The predominant use depicts a person or thing moving ahead of others or toward a destination. Other occurrences describe bringing people out before an audience, while several non-locomotion clauses place sins, persons, or a commandment in an ahead/preceding relation.
Senses in use
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Going ahead or leading onward · dominant
Present participles describe people already ahead in a movement: in Mark 10:32 the APB renders Jesus as "going before them" on the road, while in Matthew 21:9 crowds ahead of him cry out. Future and present forms also set Galilee or the far shore as the destination ahead, as rendered in Mark 14:28 and Mark 6:45.
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Bringing someone out before others · common
Aorist active forms occur where people are to be brought out: in Acts 12:6 Herod was going to "bring him out," and in Acts 17:5 the crowd sought to bring people out before the people. In Acts 25:26, the speaker says he has brought a man before the hearers, especially King Agrippa.
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Being ahead in a stated relation · occasional
In 1 Timothy 5:24, present participial language places conspicuous sins ahead of people "to judgment." In 2 John 1:9, the present participle identifies the person who "goes ahead" rather than remaining in the teaching; Hebrews 7:18 refers to a "preceding commandment."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the movement passages, the APB commonly uses "going before," "went ahead," or "go ahead." In the Acts passages it instead presents the action as "bring him out" or "brought him before"; these renderings reflect whole clauses.