11But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
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For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. …
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: …
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We find not Christ, in all his preaching, so severe upon any sort of people as upon these scribes and Pharisees ; for the truth is, nothing is more directly opposite to the spirit of the gospel than the temper and practice of that generation of men, who were made up of pride, worldliness, and tyranny, under a cloak and pretence of religion; yet these were the idols and darlings of the people, who…
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