Matthew 20:27
And whoever will be first among you, let him be your servant;
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
In Context
26It shall not be so among you. But whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.
Cross References
Matthew 18:4Whoever, therefore, humbles himself as this little child, is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 22:26But you shall not be so; but let the greatest among you be as the younger, and him that is chief, as he that serves.
Romans 1:14I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus sake.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, 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 →