Matthew 11:11

New English Translation

“I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.

Cross References

Job 14:1

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

Job 14:4

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 30:26

The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

Zechariah 12:8

On that day the Lord himself will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like mighty David, and the dynasty of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them.

Matthew 11:10

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

Matthew 11:12

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.

Matthew 3:1

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 5:19

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:15

for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.

Luke 7:28

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.”

Luke 9:48

and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

John 1:15

John testified about him and shouted out, “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’”

John 1:27

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

John 10:41

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

John 3:30

He must become more important while I become less important.”

John 5:35

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

John 7:39

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

1 Corinthians 15:9

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 6:4

So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?

Ephesians 2:3

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

Ephesians 3:8

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

2 Timothy 1:10

but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!

Hebrews 11:40

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

1 Peter 1:10

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who predicted the grace that would come to you searched and investigated carefully.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!