Thematic Bible: His pre-eminence
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But Jesus, as we see, has obtained a ministry as far excelling theirs, as the Covenant of which he is the intermediary, based, as it is, on better promises, excels the former Covenant.
It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'
I, indeed, baptize you with water to teach repentance; but He who is Coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others.
"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.
So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this very Jesus whom you crucified."
The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
And he is the Head of the Church, which is his Body. The First-born from the dead, he is to the Church the Source of its Life, that he, in all things, may stand first.
having shown himself as much greater than the angels as the Name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.
He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the House is held in greater regard than the House itself.
Divinity » His foreknowledge » His pre-eminence
But Jesus, as we see, has obtained a ministry as far excelling theirs, as the Covenant of which he is the intermediary, based, as it is, on better promises, excels the former Covenant.
It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'
I, indeed, baptize you with water to teach repentance; but He who is Coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others.
"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.
So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this very Jesus whom you crucified."
The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
And he is the Head of the Church, which is his Body. The First-born from the dead, he is to the Church the Source of its Life, that he, in all things, may stand first.
having shown himself as much greater than the angels as the Name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.
He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the House is held in greater regard than the House itself.
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