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路加福音 22:24

門徒再爭論誰最大門徒中間又起了爭論:他們中間誰是最大的。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambition;   Church;   Humility;   Minister, Christian;   Strife;   Scofield Reference Index - Imputation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ambition;   Imperfections, of Good Men;   Perfection-Imperfection;   Worldly;   The Topic Concordance - Government;   Greatness;   Heaven/the Heavens;   Kingdom of God;   Servants;   Temptation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Apostles, the;   Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Humility;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Primacy;   Supremacy of the Pope;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Benefactors;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eucharist;   Foot;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Confession (of Christ);   Discipleship;   Endurance;   Humility;   Ideas (Leading);   Loneliness;   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Reality;   Separation;   Upper Room (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Judas;   Passover;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Washing of Feet;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 21;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
门 徒 起 了 争 论 , 他 们 中 间 那 一 个 可 算 为 大 。

Contextual Overview

21 "But one of you will turn against me, and his hand is with mine on the table. 22 What God has planned for the Son of Man will happen, but how terrible it will be for that one who turns against the Son of Man." 23 Then the apostles asked each other which one of them would do that. 24 The apostles also began to argue about which one of them was the most important. 25 But Jesus said to them, "The kings of the non-Jewish people rule over them, and those who have authority over others like to be called ‘friends of the people.' 26 But you must not be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the leader should be like the servant. 27 Who is more important: the one sitting at the table or the one serving? You think the one at the table is more important, but I am like a servant among you. 28 "You have stayed with me through my struggles. 29 Just as my Father has given me a kingdom, I also give you a kingdom 30 so you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 9:46, Matthew 20:20-24, Mark 9:34, Mark 10:37-41, Romans 12:10, 1 Corinthians 13:4, Philippians 2:3-5, James 4:5, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:10 - and seek Judges 8:23 - I will Proverbs 13:10 - Only Matthew 5:19 - great Matthew 18:1 - Who Matthew 20:21 - Grant Mark 10:41 - they Romans 12:16 - Mind 1 Peter 5:3 - as 3 John 1:9 - who loveth

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
It was after he had lived ten years in Canaan that Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.)
Genesis 25:6
But before Abraham died, he did give gifts to the sons of his other wives, then sent them to the East to be away from Isaac.
Proverbs 15:25
The Lord will tear down the proud person's house, but he will protect the widow's property.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was also a strife among them,.... The Persic version reads, "at a certain time there was a contention among the apostles"; and some think, that this refers to the time when the mother of Zebedee's two sons asked the favour of Christ, to set one of them at his right hand, and the other at his left, in his kingdom; which greatly incensed the other disciples, and occasioned a dispute about precedence; when our Lord interposed, and used much the same arguments as here; and which, it is thought, Luke here inserts out of the proper place. The Ethiopic version renders it, "then his disciples disputed among themselves"; pinning it down to this very time: and what might give occasion to the present dispute, may be what Christ had said concerning the kingdom of God,

Luke 22:16 which they understanding of the temporal kingdom of the Messiah, and fancying, by his words, that it was near at hand, began to strive among themselves who should be the greatest in it; or it might be brought on by their inquiry among themselves, who should betray him, which might lead them on each one to throw off the imputation from himself, and to commend himself as a steady follower of Jesus, and to express his hopes of being his chief favourite, and principal minister in his kingdom: for the strife was,

which of them should be accounted the greatest; by Christ; or that should be so in his kingdom. Perhaps the contention might be chiefly between Peter, James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, and who were the favourite disciples of Christ; and Peter might urge his seniority, and what Christ had said to him, Matthew 16:18 and the rather, since it is certain Satan was now busy about him; wherefore Christ calls him by name, and singles him out among the rest,

Luke 22:31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A strife - A contention or debate.

Which of them should be the greatest - The apostles, in common with the Jews generally, had supposed that the Messiah would come as a temporal prince, and in the manner of other princes of the earth - of course, that he would have officers of his government, ministers of state, etc. Their contention was founded on this expectation, and they were disputing which of them should be raised to the highest office. They had before had a similar contention. See Matthew 18:1; Matthew 20:20-28. Nothing can be more humiliating than that the disciples should have had “such” contentions, and in such a time and place. That just as Jesus was contemplating his own death, and laboring to prepare them for it, they should strive and contend about office and rank, shows how deeply seated is the love of power; how ambition will find its way into the most secret and sacred places; and how even the disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus are sometimes actuated by this most base and wicked feeling.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 22:24. There was also a strife among them — There are two different instances of this sort of contention or strife mentioned by the evangelists, each of which was accompanied with very different circumstances; one by Matthew, in Matthew 18:1, c., by Mark, Mark 9:33, c. and by Luke, in Luke 9:46, c. That contention cannot have been the same with this which is mentioned here. The other, related in Matthew 20:20, &c., and Mark 10:35, &c., must be what Luke intended here to record and this strife or contention was occasioned by the request which Zebedee's wife made to our Lord in favour of her sons, James and John but, then, Luke has mentioned this very much out of the order of time, it having happened while our Lord and his disciples were on their way to Jerusalem: Matthew 20:17; Mark 10:32. See Bp. PEARCE.


 
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