Matthew 11:11 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹¹ "I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he.

¹¹ I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.

¹⁹ Anyone, therefore, who weakens one of the slightest of these commands, and teaches others to do so, will be ranked lowest in the Kingdom of Heaven; but anyone who observes them and teaches others to do so will be ranked high in the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,

²⁸ "I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he.

⁴⁸ and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes him who has sent me. For it is the lowliest among you all who is really great."

¹⁵ (John testified to him and cried out—for it was he who said it—"He who was to come after me is now ahead of me, for he existed before me!")

²⁷ He is to come after me, and I am not worthy to undo his shoe!"

³⁰ He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

³⁵ He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

³⁹ He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive—for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

⁴¹ And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

²⁵ To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed, ²⁶ and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith—

⁴ If then you have ordinary matters to be settled, will you submit them for judgment to men who are nothing in the church?

⁹ For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

³ We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

⁸ To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,

²⁶ that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him, ²⁷ to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.

¹⁰ which has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has taken away the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

⁴⁰ for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.

¹⁰ About this salvation the prophets who prophesied of the blessing that was destined for you made the most careful investigation,