⁴¹ The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed something greater than Jonah is here!^(A)

⁴² The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed something greater than Solomon is here!^(A)

⁷ By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.^(A)

²⁷ Then the physically uncircumcised person who keeps the law will judge you who, though having the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law.

⁶ I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.^(A)

² “Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”^(A)

¹¹ Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.^(A)

⁵ Now Moses was faithful in all God’s^[a] house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later.^{(A) 6} Christ, however, was faithful over God’s^[b] house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm^[c] the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.^(B)

⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be?”^{(A) 54} Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, ‘He is our God,’^{(B) 55} though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word.^{(C) 56} Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.”^{(D) 57} Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”^{[a] 58} Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”^(E)

¹² Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”