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A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Luke 22:24–30
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He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’
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26
But not so with you. Rather, the one who is greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
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For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
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28
“But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
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I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
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Verse 29. And I assign to you, as my Father hath assigned to me, a kingdom; that is as my heavenly Father decreed to exalt me, even as man, and with my human nature, above all creatures; so will I also make you, according to your different merits, partakers of my glory.
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30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
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Verse 30. That you may eat and drink of the spiritual banquet of the joys of heaven which in the Scriptures are divers times compared to a feast or banquet. Witham.—Sit upon thrones. Judas is excepted from the dignity of this great promise. For it is probable he had gone out before the Lord spoke these words. They likewise are excepted, who (Saint John 6:66) having heard the words of an incomprehensible mystery, turned back and went away. Ven. Bede.
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