Matthew 23:11
New International Version
The greatest among you will be your servant.

New Living Translation
The greatest among you must be a servant.

English Standard Version
The greatest among you shall be your servant.

Berean Standard Bible
The greatest among you shall be your servant.

Berean Literal Bible
But the greatest among you will be your servant.

King James Bible
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

New King James Version
But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

New American Standard Bible
But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

NASB 1995
“But the greatest among you shall be your servant.

NASB 1977
“But the greatest among you shall be your servant.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the greatest among you shall be your servant.

Amplified Bible
But the greatest among you will be your servant.

Christian Standard Bible
The greatest among you will be your servant.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The greatest among you will be your servant.

American Standard Version
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But he who is great among you will be a servant to you.

Contemporary English Version
Whoever is the greatest should be the servant of the others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

English Revised Version
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The person who is greatest among you will be your servant.

Good News Translation
The greatest one among you must be your servant.

International Standard Version
The person who is greatest among you must be your servant.

Literal Standard Version
And the greater of you will be your servant,

Majority Standard Bible
The greatest among you shall be your servant.

New American Bible
The greatest among you must be your servant.

NET Bible
The greatest among you will be your servant.

New Revised Standard Version
The greatest among you will be your servant.

New Heart English Bible
But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

Webster's Bible Translation
But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.

Weymouth New Testament
He who is the greatest among you shall be your servant;

World English Bible
But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

Young's Literal Translation
And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

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Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
10Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.…

Cross References
Matthew 20:26
It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Matthew 23:10
Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.

Mark 9:35
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

Mark 10:43
But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Luke 22:26
But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.


Treasury of Scripture

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Matthew 20:26,27
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; …

Mark 10:43,44
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: …

Luke 22:26,27
But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve…

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Matthew 23
1. Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine, not bad examples
5. His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13. He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness,
34. and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.














(11) He that is greatest among you.--Literally, the greater of you. The words admit of a two-fold meaning. Either (1), as in Mark 9:35, they assert a law of retribution--the man who seeks to be greatest shall be the servant of all; or (2) they point out the other law, of which our Lord's own life was the highest illustration--that he who is really greatest will show his greatness, not in asserting it, but in a life of ministration. The latter interpretation seems to give on the whole the best meaning.

Verse 11. - But he that is greatest...your servant; διάκονος: minister (see Matthew 20:26, 27). It was there said to the apostles alone; here it is spoken more publicly to emphasize the contrast between Christian humility and Pharisaical pride and vanity.

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Greek
The
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

greatest
μείζων (meizōn)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular - Comparative
Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.

among you
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

shall be
ἔσται (estai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

servant.
διάκονος (diakonos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1249: Probably from an obsolete diako; an attendant, i.e. a waiter; specially, a Christian teacher and pastor.


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