Son is superior even to Moses, the author of the Pentateuch and the supreme prophet of the Old Testament (Heb. 3:3–6). Christ’s ministry is better than that of Moses, just as the new covenant is more excellent than the old one since it is enacted on better promises (Heb. 8:6). Quoting Jeremiah 31:31–34, the writer to the Hebrews says, “In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away” (Heb. 8:13). The writer to the