Matthew 20:27
and whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant;
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant,
Cross References
Matthew 18:4Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this young child, he it is who is superior to others in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
Luke 22:26With you it is not so; but let the greatest among you be as the younger, and the leader be like him who serves.
Romans 1:14I am already under obligations alike to Greek-speaking races and to others, to cultured and to uncultured people:
2 Corinthians 4:5(For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.) Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments, by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life many a time.
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 →