Many people understand the quote to mean that His answer was "Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet." I'm hard pressed to come up with any other reasonable way to look at it. Do you have any ideas?
Shabbat Shalom ! HaShem is greater than a prophet. no?
Matthew 11:9 But what did you go out to see?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
A prophet?
Yes,
I tell you, and one who is more than a prophet.