Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of My Father's hand.

I and the Father are one."

The crowd answered Him, "We heard from the law that the Christ abides forever; and so how do You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.

Yet I say to you that [One] greater [than] the temple is here.

The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater [than] Jonah [is] here.

The queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and she shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater [than] Solomon [is] here.

of whom are the fathers and from whom Christ [came], according to the flesh, He who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

who is faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.

For this One has been counted worthy of more honor than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to collect tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, though they have come from the loins of Abraham;

Now without any contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.

Because of this the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but also He called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God."