27And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
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And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? …
But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Commentary
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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