I am attracted to Eugene’s meditations on John 3:31-36, stumbling over them today, for he is seeing the very things I am exegeting.  And he is asking the very same heart question that I am posing to you, friends.

Jesus is not just a better version of Moses, or David, or Elijah–or John.  He is different entirely: “from heaven.”  Jesus is not a word about God, but the very word of God.  His presence brings us into the fullness of God.  In him we have not just a fragment of truth but the whole picture of redemption. 

What is the difference between John and Jesus (247).

 – A Year With Jesus (2006)