马可福音 9:35

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶穌坐下，叫十二門徒來，對他們說：“誰想為首，就該作眾人中最末的一個，作眾人的僕人。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 坐 下 ， 叫 十 二 个 门 徒 来 ， 说 ： 若 有 人 愿 意 作 首 先 的 ， 他 必 作 众 人 末 後 的 ， 作 众 人 的 用 人 。

Contextual Overview

³⁰ Then Jesus and his followers left that place and went through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know where he was, ³¹ because he was teaching his followers. He said to them, "The Son of Man will be handed over to people, and they will kill him. After three days, he will rise from the dead." ³² But the followers did not understand what Jesus meant, and they were afraid to ask him. ³³ Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum. When they went into a house there, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" ³⁴ But the followers did not answer, because their argument on the road was about which one of them was the greatest. ³⁵ Jesus sat down and called the twelve apostles to him. He said, "Whoever wants to be the most important must be last of all and servant of all." ³⁶ Then Jesus took a small child and had him stand among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said, ³⁷ "Whoever accepts a child like this in my name accepts me. And whoever accepts me accepts the One who sent me." ³⁸ Then John said, "Teacher, we saw someone using your name to force demons out of a person. We told him to stop, because he does not belong to our group." ³⁹ But Jesus said, "Don't stop him, because anyone who uses my name to do powerful things will not easily say evil things about me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If: Mark 10:42-45, Proverbs 13:10, Jeremiah 45:5, Matthew 20:25-28, Luke 14:10, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:14, James 4:6

Reciprocal: Matthew 20:26 - it Mark 10:43 - whosoever

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he sat down,.... As their master, as one having authority; and in order to examine into this matter, and pass judgment upon it:

and called the twelve; all the disciples, who though they might not be all engaged in this dispute, nor equally criminal, yet were all, possessed of the same notion; and therefore Christ calls them all unto him, what he had to say, being pertinent unto them all:

and saith unto them, if any man desire to be first; to have the pre-eminence, and be in the chief place in the kingdom of the Messiah,

the same shall be last of all, and servant of all: his pride and vanity shall be checked; his ambitious views shall be frustrated; instead of being first, he shall be last; and instead of having superior reverence and respect, he shall be debased, and treated with neglect and contempt; and instead of being the master over others, shall be the servant of all. Some copies read, "let him be"; and so the Persic version, "let him be last, and minister to every one"; and the Ethiopic thus, "let him subject himself to all, and be servant to all"; for the only way to preferment in Christ's kingdom, or in the Gospel dispensation, is humility and meekness, and performing the lowest services to all, with diligence and cheerfulness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 18:1-5.