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LUKE 22:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 22:24Luke 22:26
“And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.”
Jesus said to them, the kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors — the Gentile model: the kings who lord it over (kurieousin, exercise lordship) their people. Those who exercise authority call themselves Benefactors (Euergetai): the honorific title that Hellenistic rulers claimed while exercising power over their subjects.

Church Fathers on Luke 22:25

While they were inquiring among themselves who should betray the Lord, they would naturally go on to say to one another, “You are the traitor,” and so become impelled to say, “I am the best, I am the greatest.” Hence it is said, And there was also a strife among them which should be accounted the greatest.

Theophylact · 11th century

Or the strife seems to have arisen from this, that when our Lord was departing from the world, it was thought that some one must become their head, as taking our Lord’s place.

GREEK EX ·

As good men seek in the Scriptures the examples of their fathers, that they may thereby gain profit and be humbled, so the bad, if by, chance they have discovered any thing blamable in the elect, most gladly seize upon it, to shelter their own iniquities thereby. Many therefore most eagerly read, that a strife arose among the disciples of Christ.

Bede · 8th century
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