Matthew 20:27
and whoever wants be first among you shall be your bondman.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
In Context
28Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Cross References
Matthew 18:4He therefore who will make himself lowly as this child, this man is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.
Luke 22:26But ye are not this way. Rather, the greater among you, shall become as the newer, and he who leads, as he who serves.
Romans 1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:21-29
Ambition Corrected. 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 23… Read the whole commentary →