24And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing. …
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)Here, is first, the request of the two disciples to Christ, and the rectifying of the mistake upon which that was grounded, Matt. 20:20-23. The sons of Zebedee were James and John, two of the first three of Christ’s disciples; Peter and they were his favourites; John was the disciple whom Jesus loved; yet none were so often reproved as they; whom Christ loves best he reproves most, Rev. 3:19. I. H…
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