John 8:53 Cross References - CLV

⁵³ Not you are greater than our father Abraham who died! And the prophets died. Whom are you making yourself to be?

⁶ For a Boy is born to us; a Son is given to us, and the chieftainship shall come to be on His shoulder, and His name is called "Marvelous.Counsel to the master shall He bring, to the chief of the future, welfare."

⁶ Now I am saying to you that a Greater than the sanctuary is here.

⁴¹ Men, Ninevites, will be rising in the judging with this generation and will be condemning it, for they repent at the heralding of Jonah, and lo! more than Jonah is here!" ⁴² The queen of the south will be roused in the judging with this generation and will be condemning it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo! more than Solomon is here!"

¹² Not greater are you than our father Jacob, who gives us the well, and he himself drank out of it, and his sons, and what was nourished by him?

¹⁸ Therefore, then, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, for He not only annulled the sabbath, but said His own Father also is God, making Himself equal to God."

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, Ere Abraham came into being, I am."

²⁹ My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to be snatching them out of My Father's hand." ³⁰ I and the Father, We are one."

³³ The Jews answered Him, "For an ideal act we are not stoning you, but for blasphemy, and that you, being a man, are making yourself God."

³⁴ The throng, then, answered Him, "We hear out of the law that the Christ is remaining for the eon, and how are you saying that the Son of Mankind must be exalted? Who is this Son of Mankind?

⁷ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he makes himself son of God."

⁵ whose are the fathers, and out of whom is the Christ according to the flesh, Who is over all, God be blessed for the eons. Amen!"

² Who is faithful to Him Who makes Him, as Moses also was in His whole house." ³ For this One is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who constructs it has more honor than the house."

¹ For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who meets with Abraham returning from the combat with the kings and blesses him, ² to whom Abraham parts a tithe also, from all; being first, indeed, translated king of righteousness,yet thereupon king of Salem, also, which is "king of Peace";" ³ fatherless, motherless, without a genealogy, having neither a beginning of days nor consummation of life, yet picturing the Son of God is remaining a priest to a finality." ⁴ Now, behold how eminent this one is to whom the patriarch Abraham gives a tithe also of the best of the booty." ⁵ And, indeed, those of the sons of Levi who obtain the priestly office have a direction to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren even those who also have come out of the loins of Abraham." ⁶ Yet he who is not of their genealogy has tithed Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises." ⁷ Now, beyond all contradiction, the inferior is blessed by the better."