Book of Common Prayer

3 My brothers, you are holy. You are also called to go to heaven. Take time to think carefully about Jesus. God sent him. He is the high priest we believe in.

² He did what God sent him to do, just as Moses did in God's house.

³ But Jesus is much greater than Moses - as the one who builds a house is greater than the house itself.

⁴ Every house is built by someone, but God is the one who builds all things.

⁵ Moses did what he was told to do as a servant in all of God's house. He showed things that God would say later.

⁶ But Jesus Christ was true as a Son over God's house. We are God's house if we keep on believing and telling others what we hope to have.

²⁵ John's disciples and the leaders of the Jews were talking about how to be clean, the way God wants us to be clean.

²⁶ They came to John and said, `Teacher, there was a man with you on the other side of the Jordan River. You were telling people about him. Now he himself is baptizing and all the people are going to him.'

²⁷ John answered, `A man cannot get anything unless God in heaven gives it to him.

²⁸ You yourselves heard what I said. I am not the Christ but I have been sent ahead of the Christ.

²⁹ The wife belongs to the man who has married her. The man's best friend may stand and listen. And when he hears what that man says, he is very glad for him. So what I hear makes me very glad in the same way.

³⁰ He must become more and more great, but I must become less and less great.