John 8:53
Are you greater than our ancestor Abraham, who died? And the prophets died too. Whom do you make yourself out to be?”
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Matthew 12:41At the judgment, the people of Nineveh will stand up with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and here is more than a Jonah!
John 5:18This made the authorities all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father – putting himself on an equality with God.
John 10:29What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father’s hands.
John 12:34“We have learned from the Law,” replied the people, “that the Christ is to remain forever. So how can you say that ‘the Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”
Romans 9:5They are descended from the patriarchs, and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ – he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen.
Matthew Henry on John 8:52-59
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. 52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye… Read the whole commentary →