MATTHEW 20:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;”
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant. The kingdom's contrast: it shall not be so among you. The greatness that the kingdom recognizes is the greatness of the servant. The must communicates the necessity of the reversal: the disciple who wants to be great in the kingdom has no choice but to become the servant of others.
Church Fathers on Matthew 20:26
So long as the judgment of Christ upon this request was in suspense, the other disciples were not indignant; but when they heard Him rebuke them, they were sorrowful; whence it is said, 'And when the ten heard it, they had indignation against the two brethren.'
They do not lay it upon the forwardness of the mother who spoke the request, but upon her sons, who, not knowing their measure, burned with so immoderate desires.
But as the two had asked carnally, so now the ten are grieved carnally. For as to seek to be above all is blameworthy, so to have another above us is mortifying to our vanity.
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