Matthew 20:27

and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

In Context

26but not so will it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your servant;

28even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many.”

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Cross References

Matthew 18:4whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.

Luke 22:26but you [are] not so, but he who is greater among you—let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

Romans 1:14Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,

2 Corinthians 4:5for we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus—LORD, and [we are] ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? As [if] beside myself I speak—I [am] more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.

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 →

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