</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (caset @ Jan 27 2004, 12:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Jiraiya vs Naruto, Jiraiya had trouble controlling the frog boss; the frog boss accepted Naruto thus Naruto > Jiraiya
3rd hokage mentioned that at his current state he'd have trouble (if possible at all to beat) Oro, thus saying he was once stronger so the 3rd & the 4th are stronger than Oro </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Oh my god... Was this a joke of somekind? There's no way in hell Naruto would be stronger than Jiraiya. Jiraiya is one of the legendary sennin and he's definitely stronger than Naruto. It's redicilous to say that Naruto could beat him. Maybe he can in the future, but not with his current skills.
Secondly. The third Hokage said that even he can't win against Orochimaru, that's why they were searching for Jiraiya, who is a Legendary sennin just as Orochimaru, and asked him to help them. They said that to destroy an opponent like Orochimaru, they would need a ninja from the same class (Legendary Sennin). So it's obvious that the most powerful ninja existing right now is either Jiraiya, Orochimaru or the 4th. It's guite hard to compare the 4th to Jiraiya or Orochimaru, because we haven't even yet seen Orochimaru or Jiraiya fighting, and also the 4th lived such a long time ago that maybe it's impossible to compare them to eachother even we saw Jiraiya and Orochimaru fight.