“And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all — the sitting down is the posture of formal teaching. The paradox of kingdom greatness is stated with maximum compression: first = last, great = servant of all. The reversal is not merely rhetorical but structural: in the kingdom, the positions are genuinely inverted, not merely described differently. The servant of all is not a title for those who have achieved greatness — it is the definition of greatness in the kingdom's economy.
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