Matthew 20:27
and whoever among you desireth to be first, let him be your servant:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
In Context
28even 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 that shall humble himself like this child, he will be great in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 22:26But ye, not so: but he that is great among you, must be as the least; and he that is chief, as the servitor.
Romans 1:14Greeks and barbarians, the wise and the unwise: for to every man am I a debtor, to preach to him.
2 Corinthians 4:5For it is not ourselves that we preach, but the Messiah, Jesus our Lord; and, as to ourselves, that we are your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 11:23If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, 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 →