Matthew 12:6
12:6 I
tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
Matthew 12:42
12:42 The queen of the South
will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now,
something greater than Solomon is here!
John 3:31
3:31 The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.
John 4:12
4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor
Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
John 8:53-58
8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you?
And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”
8:54 Jesus replied,
“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless.
The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people
say, ‘He is our God.’
8:55 Yet
you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him,
I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey
his teaching.
8:56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed
to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”
8:57 Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!”
Hebrews 3:5-6
3:5 Now Moses was
faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.
3:6 But Christ
is faithful as a son over God’s
house. We are of his house,
if in fact we hold firmly
to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.