there is not a greater] There is not a greater in office: for he did not, as the Prophets, tell of Christ after some ages to come, but pointed him out present, John 1:29.
kingdome of God] In the new state of the Church under the perfecter light of the Gospel, the meanest Minister of Christ, who preacheth the fulfilling of those things which John saw not, is in that regard greater then John. So that here is not a comparison of the persons, but of their kinds of doctrine. Or if we understand it of the kingdome of glory, the least therein is greater then the greatest mortall man.