Matthew 23:11
And the great one among you will be your servitor.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
In Context
10And be ye not called guides; for one is your Guide, the Messiah.
12For whoever shall exalt himself, will be abased: and whoever shall abase himself, will be exalted.
Cross References
Matthew 20:26Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you desireth to be great, let him be to you, a ministerer:
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.
1 Corinthians 9:19Being free from them all, I have made myself servant to every man; that I might gain many:
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.
Philippians 2:5And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought;
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:2-13
The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:… Read the whole commentary →