Mark 10:43
I do not want you to be like that. If you want to be an important person in my family, then you have to be like a workman for the rest of my family. And if you want to be the leader of the family, you have to work hard for everyone else.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
In Context
Cross References
Mark 9:35Jesus sat down and called his followers to come and listen to him. He said, “A real leader is a person that says to themselves, ‘I am not more important than anybody else.’ So if anyone wants to be a leader, that person has to think that they are not important. They have to work to help everyone else.”
Matthew Henry on Mark 10:33-46
Christ's Prediction of His Sufferings. 32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, 33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: 34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge… Read the whole commentary →