Jesus was also born of woman. By your analysis then, John the Baptist is greater than Jesus.
It's not my analysis, it's scripture. Check it out -- you're not disagreeing with me, you're disagreeing with Matthew.
In light of the other sayings of Jesus and the apostles and the context in which the statement was made, I think it pretty obvious that Jesus was excluding himself.
I noticed that you conveniently ignored the verse in Luke where Jesus rebuked a woman in the crowd for yelling out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you."