Cain & Christ compared and contrasted

Cain and Christ compared
Here are two men
1. Descended from Adam and spoken of in Scripture. (Cf Luke 3:38)
2. With famous mothers who expected great things of them.
3. Who were firstborn sons but had other siblings.
4. Who became wanderers yet both founded cities. (God condemned Cain to be a restless wanderer on the earth, Gen 4:12, but showed him mercy. He founded a city and named it for his son Enoch. In Lk 9:58 Christ says Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head. Yet he founded New Jerusalem, the City of God).
Cain and Christ contrasted
1. Cain is the first real villain in the Bible; Christ its great hero. (1 Jn 3:12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. 1 Pet 2:20 Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps 1 Cor 1:11 Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.)
2. Cain made a sacrifice to God that was unacceptable; Christ one that was.
3. Cain lacked faith; Christ did not. (Heb 11 speaks of Abel's faith. Cain clearly lacked it. Christ always acted in faith – see eg Matt 17:19, 20)
4. Cain was told to master his sin but failed to do so; Christ was able to master it. (Gen 4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. Clearly he failed to do that. Sin mastered him. Jesus was the opposite. The Devil could not get him to sin. Jn 14:30 He has no hold on me.)
5. Cain killed his brother and refused to be his keeper; Christ died to make people his brothers. (Gen 4:9 Am I my brother's keeper? Heb 2:1 Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.)
6. Cain, full of hatred, was no brother to Abel; Christ, full of love, sticks closer than a brother. (Cf Prov 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.)
7. Cain spilt another's blood that cried out to God; Christ spilt his own and it speaks a better word. (Heb 12:24 refers to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel, cf 1 Pet 1:18, 19 ... it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.)
8. Cain was angry before he killed; Christ was full of joy before he was killed. (Gen 4:5, 6 Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the LORD said to Cain, Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? Heb 12:2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, ... who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.)
9. Cain deserved to die but did not; Christ did not deserve to die but did. (Gen 4:15 But the LORD said to him, Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no-one who found him would kill him. 2 Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.)