John 8:53

53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

Ver. 53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham which is dead? ] They rise no higher than to a natural life. "Our life is hid with Christ in God," Colossians 3:3 , as the pearl is hid in the shell, as Christ was hidden under the carpenter’s son, so as that the buzzards of this world could see no beauty in him.