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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:24

When the ten heard it, they were moved - The ambition which leads to spiritual lordship is one great cause of murmurings and animosities in religious societies, and has proved the ruin of the most flourishing Churches in the universe. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:25

Exercise dominion - and - exercise authority upon them - They tyrannized and exercised arbitrary power over the people. This was certainly true of the governments in our Lord's time, both in the east and in the west. I have endeavored to express, as nearly as possible, the meaning of the two Greek verbs, κατακυριευουσιν , and κατεξουσιαζουσιν ; and those who understand the genius of the language will perceive that I have not exhausted their sense, however some may think that no emphasis... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:26

It 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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:27

Your servant - Δουλος the lowest secular office, as deacon was the lowest ecclesiastical office: δουλος is often put for slave. From these directions of our Lord, we may easily discern what sort of a spirit his ministers should be of. A minister of Christ is not to consider himself a lord over Christ's flock. He is not to conduct the concerns of the Church with an imperious spirit. He is to reform the weak, after Christ's example, more by loving instruction than by reproof or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:28

A ransom for many - Λυτρον αντι πολλων , or a ransom instead of many, - one ransom, or atonement, instead of the many prescribed in the Jewish law. Mr. Wakefield contends for the above translation, and with considerable show of reason and probability. The word λυτρον is used by the Septuagint for the Hebrew פדיו , pidion , the ransom paid for a man's life: see Exodus 21:30 ; Numbers 3:49-51 ; and λυτρα is used Numbers 35:31 , where a satisfaction (Hebrew כפר copher , an... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:24

Verse 24 Matthew 20:24.And when the ten heard it. (660) Luke appears to refer this dispute to a different time. But any one who shall carefully examine that twenty-second chapter will plainly see that discourses delivered at different times are there brought together, without any regard to order. The dispute about the primacy, therefore which Luke mentions, flowed from this source, that the sons of Zebedee aspired to the first places in the kingdom of Christ. And yet the displeasure of the rest... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:25

Verse 25 25.You know that the princes of the Gentiles rule over them. It is first said that Christ called them to him, that he might reprove them in private; and next we learn from it that, being ashamed of their ambition, they did not openly complain, but that a sort of hollow murmur arose, and every one secretly preferred himself to the rest. He does not explain generally how deadly a plague ambition is, but simply warns them, that nothing is more foolish than to fight about nothing. (662) He... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:26

Verse 26 26.It shall not be so among you. There can be no doubt that Christ refers to the foolish imagination by which he saw that the apostles were deceived. “It is foolish and improper in you,” he says, “to imagine a kingdom, which is unsuitable to me; and therefore, if you desire to serve me faithfully, you must resort to a different method, which is, that each of you may strive to serve others.” (666) But whoever wishes to be great among you, let him be your servant. These words are... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:28

Verse 28 28.As the Son of man Christ confirms the preceding doctrine by his own example; for he voluntarily took upon himself the form of a servant, and emptied himself, as Paul also informs us, (Philippians 2:7.) To prove more clearly how far he was from indulging in lofty views, he reminds them of his death. “Because I have chosen you to the honor of being near me, you are seized by a wicked ambition to reign. But I — by whose example you ought to regulate your life — came not to exalt... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 20:20-28

Ambitious request of the mother of the sons of Zebedee . ( Mark 10:35-45 .) read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:28

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 20:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 20:20-28

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