supernatural, even divine in character; and third, coming as the phrase “not even the Son” does after the reference to angels, Jesus places himself, on an ascending scale of rank, above the angels of heaven, the highest of all created beings, who are significantly marked out here as supramundane (see Matthew’s “of heaven,” Mark’s “in heaven”). Clearly, he classifies himself with the Father rather than with the angelic class, inasmuch as elsewhere he represents himself as the Lord of the angels whose