“The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.”
Matthew 10:24 — Greek Interlinear
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.