but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;Matthew 20:26 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleIt shall not be so among you - Every kind of lordship and spiritual domination over the Church of Christ, like that exercised by the Church of Rome, is destructive and anti-christian.
Your minister - Or, deacon, διακονος. I know no other word which could at once convey the meaning of the original, and make a proper distinction between it and δουλος, or servant, in Matthew 20:27. The office of a deacon, in the primitive Church, was to serve in the agapae, or love feasts, to distribute the bread and wine to the communicants; to proclaim different parts and times of worship in the churches; and to take care of the widows, orphans, prisoners, and sick, who were provided for out of the revenues of the Church. Thus we find it was the very lowest ecclesiastical office. Deacons were first appointed by the apostles, Acts 6:1-6; they had the care of the poor, and preached occasionally.
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Matthew 23:8-12 But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all you are brothers...
Mark 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all...
Mark 10:43,45 But so shall it not be among you: but whoever will be great among you, shall be your minister...
Luke 14:7-11 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them...
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalts himself shall be abased...
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight...
2 Corinthians 1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith you stand.
2 Corinthians 10:4-10 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)...
1 Peter 5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
3 John 1:9,10 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not...
Revelation 13:11-17 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon...
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her...
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Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you an hungered, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked...
Matthew 27:55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him:
Ezekiel 24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged...
Acts 13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
2 Timothy 1:18 The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered to me at Ephesus...
Philemon 1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel:
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives...
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