Mark 10:44 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 10:44

and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

KJV

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

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Commentary

1 voice

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

(ubi sup.) In which He teaches, that he is the greater, who is the less, and that he becomes the lord, who is servant of all: vain, therefore, was it both for the one party to seek for immoderate things, and the other to be annoyed at their desiring greater things, since we are to arrive at the height of virtue not by power but by humility.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

Let us mark in this passage, the ignorance of our Lord's disciples . We find James and John petitioning for the first places in the kingdom of glory. We find them confidently declaring their ability to drink of their Master's cup and be baptized with their Master's baptism. In spite of all the plain warnings of our Lord, they clung obstinately to the belief that Christ's kingdom on earth was immediately going to appear. Notwithstanding their many shortcomings in Christ's service, they had no misgivings as to their power to endure any thing which might come upon them.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὃς	hos	who[ever]	G3739 →
ἂν	an	maybe	G302 →
θέλῃ	thelē	shall desire	G2309 →
ἐν	en	among	G1722 →
ὑμῖν	humin	you	G4771 →
εἶναι	einai	to become	G1511 →
πρῶτος,	prōtos	first,	G4413 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
πάντων	pantōn	of all	G3956 →
δοῦλος.	doulos	slave.	G1401 →