Whoever shall exalt himself will be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself will be exalted.

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

This man, I tell you, went home pardoned, rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, while every one who humbles himself shall be exalted."

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

This was his reply-- "The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;

And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.

It is this Jesus whom God has exalted to his right hand, to be a Guide and a Savior, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.

Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted--I mean because I told you God's Good News without payment.

This was the High Priest that we needed--holy, innocent, spotless, withdrawn from sinners, exalted above the highest Heaven,

Let a Brother in humble circumstances be proud of his exalted position, but a rich Brother of his humiliation;