Matthew 20:27
and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
In Context
26Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;
Cross References
Matthew 18:4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 22:26But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Romans 1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
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 →