MATTHEW 10:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.”
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. The principle of shared fate: if Jesus faces opposition, the disciples who represent him will face the same opposition. Luke 6:40 adds that the disciple, when fully trained, will be like his teacher. The disciples' suffering is not an anomaly but a participation in the teacher's experience. The disciple-teacher relationship means that the world treats the student as it treats the teacher. If Jesus is accused of demonic power (verse 25), the disciples will be accused of the same — and the accusation is evidence of authenticity, not failure.
Church Fathers on Matthew 10:24
Because it should come to pass that His disciples among their other persecutions should suffer loss of character, which to many is the most grievous of all calamities, He consoles them from His own example, and those things that were spoken of Him; a comfort to which no other can be compared.
For the Lord, the Light eternal, the Captain of the faithful, the Parent of immortality, set before His disciples this solace of the sufferings that should come upon them, that we should embrace it as our glory when we are made like to our Lord in suffering; whence He says, 'The disciple is not above his master, nor the slave above his lord.'
He calls Himself master and lord; by disciple and servant He denotes His Apostles.
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