Matthew 20:26

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him 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 he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, ‹If any man desire to be first,› [the same] ‹shall be last of all, and servant of all.›
• Mark 10:43 : 43 ‹But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:›
• Mark 10:45 : 45 ‹For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.›
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
• 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 ¶ I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth [them] out of the church.
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
• Acts 13:5 : 5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to [their] minister.
• 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
• 2 Cor 10:4-9 : 4 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 ¶ Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is] Christ's, even so [are] we Christ's. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.
• 2 Tim 1:18 : 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
• Phlm 1:13 : 13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
• Luke 14:7-9 : 7 ¶ And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 8 ‹When thou art bidden of any› [man] ‹to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;› 9 ‹And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.› 10 ‹But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.› 11 ‹For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.›
• Luke 18:14 : 14 ‹I tell you, this man went down to his house justified› [rather] ‹than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.›
• Ezek 24:13 : 13 In thy filthiness [is] lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
• Matt 23:8-9 : 8 ‹But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master,› [even] ‹Christ; and all ye are brethren.› 9 ‹And call no› [man] ‹your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.› 10 ‹Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master,› [even] ‹Christ.› 11 ‹But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.› 12 ‹And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.›
• Matt 25:44 : 44 ‹Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?›
• Matt 27:55 : 55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
• John 18:36 : 36 Jesus answered, ‹My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.›
• Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
• Rev 13:11-17 : 11 ¶ And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.