Luke 22:27 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 22:27

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

BSB

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ASV

For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am in the midst of you as he that serveth.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 143 (444)

In the passage that has just been read, Christ says, "For which is the chief, he that reclines at table, or he that serves? Is it not he that reclines? But I am in the midst of you as he that serves." When Christ says this, who can be so obstinate and unyielding as not to put away all pride and banish from his mind the love of empty honor? Christ is ministered to by the whole creation of rational and holy beings. He is praised by the seraphim. He is tended by the services of the universe.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now Christ was among his disciples just like one that waited at table. He was so far from taking state, or taking his ease, by commanding their attendance upon him, that he was ready to do any office of kindness and service for them; witness his washing their feet.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2514: “Servus Servorum” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1897)

OBSERVE, dear Friends, that our Lord, in order to impress a great practical Truth of God upon His 12 Apostles, refers them to Himself. He very often does so, quoting His own doings as an example to His servants. Does not this fact give us a hint that there is someone greater than a man here, for no mere man, modest and true and right-minded, would continually make himself the object of imitation! We would not consider it right if we found Abraham, or Moses, or David constantly pointing to himself as an example.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τίς	tis	Who	G5101 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
μείζων,	meizōn	[is] greater,	G3173 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ἀνακείμενος	anakeimenos	reclining	G345 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
διακονῶν;	diakonōn	serving?	G1247 →
οὐχὶ	ouchi	Surely	G3780 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ἀνακείμενος;	anakeimenos	reclining?	G345 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
μέσῳ	mesō	[the] midst	G3319 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
εἰμι	eimi	am	G1510 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
ὁ	ho	the [One]	G3588 →
διακονῶν.	diakonōn	serving.	G1247 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
leads to
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Philippians 2:6–8
  Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
- Matthew 20:28
  just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Romans 5:8
  But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- 2 Corinthians 6:10
  sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Through
Matthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
leads to
- Hebrews 9:28
  so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
- Titus 2:14
  He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke