Matthew 20:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

It shall not be so among you: But whosoeuer wyll be great among you, let hym be your minister:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐχ οὕτως δὲ ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν: ἀλλʼ ὃς ἐὰν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι, ἔστω ὑμῶν διάκονος·

Transliteration

Not houtōs de it shall estai among you: but whoever ean thelē among you megas to genesthai, let him be estō of you diakonos;

Grammar Details

• *houtōs*: adverb - thus/in this way
• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *estai*: future, 3rd singular - will be
• *hos ean*: relative + conditional - whoever
• *thelē*: present subjunctive, 3rd singular - may wish/want
• *megas*: nominative, masculine, singular - great
• *genesthai*: aorist infinitive, middle - to become
• *estō*: present imperative, 3rd singular - let him be
• *diakonos*: nominative, masculine, singular - servant

Word Meanings

• *megas*: great/important
• *diakonos*: servant/minister/deacon

Referenced Verses

• Mark 9:35 : 35 And when he was set downe, he called the twelue to hym, and sayde vnto them: If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of al, & seruaut vnto al.
• Mark 10:43 : 43 Neuerthelesse, so shall it not be among you: but whosoeuer of you, wyll be great among you, shalbe your minister:
• Mark 10:45 : 45 For the sonne of man also came not to be ministred vnto: but to minister, & to geue his lyfe, a raunsome for many.
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Not as though ye were Lordes ouer God his heritage: but that ye be an ensample to the flocke.
• 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I wrote vnto the Churche: but Diotrephes which loueth to haue the preeminence among the, receaueth vs not. 10 Wherfore yf I come, I wyll declare his deedes which he doth, iestyng on vs with malicious wordes, neither is therwith content: not only he hym selfe receaueth not the brethren: but also he forbiddeth the that woulde, and thrusteth them out of the Churche.
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speake, let hym talke as the wordes of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the abilitie which God ministreth vnto hym, that God in all thinges may be glorified through Iesus Christe, to whom be prayse and dominion for euer and euer. Amen.
• Rev 17:6 : 6 And I sawe ye woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus: And when I sawe her, I wondred with great maruayle.
• Acts 13:5 : 5 And when they were at Salamine, they preached the worde of God in the synagogues of the Iewes: And they had also Iohn to their minister.
• 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we be Lordes ouer your fayth, but are helpers of your ioy. For by fayth ye stande.
• 2 Cor 10:4-9 : 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but myghtie through God, to cast downe strong holdes, 5 Wherwith we ouerthrowe counsels, and euery hye thyng, that is exalted agaynst the knowledge of God, & bryng into captiuitie all imagination, to the obedience of Christe, 6 And are readie to take vengeaunce on all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfylled. 7 Loke ye on thynges after the vtter appearaunce? If any man trust in hym selfe that he is Christes, let hym consider this agayne of hym selfe, that as he is of Christe, euen so are we of Christe. 8 For though I shoulde boast my selfe somwhat more of our auctoritie, which the Lorde hath geuen to vs for edification, and not for your destruction, it shal not be to my shame: 9 Lest I should seeme as though I wet about to make you afrayde by letters. 10 For the letters sayth he, are sore and strong: but his bodyly presence is weake, and his speache rude.
• 2 Tim 1:18 : 18 The Lorde graunt vnto hym, that he may fynde mercie with the Lorde in that day: And in howe many thynges he ministred vnto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
• Phlm 1:13 : 13 Whom I woulde haue retayned with me, that in thy steade he myght haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospell:
• Luke 14:7-9 : 7 He put foorth also a similitude to the ghestes, when he marked howe they chose out the chiefe rowmes, and sayde vnto them: 8 When thou art bydden of any man to a weddyng, syt not downe in the hyest rowme: lest a more honourable man then thou, be bydden of hym, 9 And he, that bad hym and thee, come, and say to thee, geue this man rowme: & thou then begyn with shame, to take the lowest rowme. 10 But when thou art bydden, go and syt in the lowest rowme, that when he that bad thee cometh, he may say vnto thee, friende syt vp hyer: Then shalt thou haue worshyppe in the presence of them that syt at meate with thee. 11 For whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man departed home to his house iustified, rather then the other. For euery one that exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.
• Ezek 24:13 : 13 In thy filthynesse is wickednesse: because I would haue purged thee, and thou wast not purged, from thy filthynesse thou shalt not be purged any more, till I haue caused myne indignation to rest in thee.
• Matt 23:8-9 : 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, euen Christe, and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen. 10 Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister euen Christe. 11 He that is greatest among you, shalbe your seruaunt. 12 But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.
• Matt 25:44 : 44 Then shall they also aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirste, or harbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in pryson, and did not minister vnto thee?
• Matt 27:55 : 55 And many wome were there (beholdyng hym a farre of) whiche folowed Iesus fro Galilee, ministring vnto him.
• John 18:36 : 36 Iesus aunswered: My kyngdome is not of this worlde. Yf my kyngdome were of this worlde, then woulde my seruauntes surely fyght, that I shoulde not be deliuered to the Iewes: but now is my kyngdome not from hence.
• Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all ministring spirites, sent foorth into ministerie for their sakes which shalbe heyres of saluation?
• Rev 13:11-17 : 11 And I behelde another beast commyng vp out of the earth, and he had two hornes lyke a lambe, and he spake as dyd the dragon. 12 And he dyd all that ye first beast coulde do in his presence, & he caused the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he dyd great wonders, so that he made fyre come downe from heauen on the earth in the syght of men. 14 And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth, by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast, saying to them that dwelt on the earth, that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde, and dyd lyue. 15 And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast shoulde speake, and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast, shoulde be kylled. 16 And he made all both smal & great, rich & poore, free & bonde, to receaue a marke in their right hand, or in their forheads. 17 And that no man myght bye or sell, saue he that had the marke or ye name of the beast, other ye number of his name.