Luke 22:27 — Community Reflections

LUKE 22:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.”

For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves — the rhetorical question: the one at the table is greater by every social evaluation. But I am among you as the one who serves (ho diakonōn): Jesus identifies himself with the serving position, not the honored-guest position. The incarnation is the Lord at the table who serves.

Church Fathers on Luke 22:27

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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