Matthew 20:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

📖 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 having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'
• Mark 10:43 : 43 but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,
• Mark 10:45 : 45 for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
• 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us; 10 because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.
• Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;
• Acts 13:5 : 5 and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John `as' a ministrant;
• 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
• 2 Cor 10:4-9 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, 5 reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ, 6 and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled. 7 The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's; 8 for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed; 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters, 10 `because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'
• 2 Tim 1:18 : 18 may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.
• Phlm 1:13 : 13 whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,
• Luke 14:7-9 : 7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, 8 `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him, 9 and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place. 10 `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee; 11 because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• Ezek 24:13 : 13 In thine uncleanness `is' wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee.
• Matt 23:8-9 : 8 `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren; 9 and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens, 10 nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ. 11 And the greater of you shall be your ministrant, 12 and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
• Matt 25:44 : 44 `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee?
• Matt 27:55 : 55 And there were there many women beholding from afar, who did follow Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,
• John 18:36 : 36 Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
• Heb 1:14 : 14 are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?
• Rev 13:11-17 : 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon, 12 and all the authority of the first beast doth it do before it, and it maketh the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed, 13 and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men, 14 and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live, 15 and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and `that' it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed. 16 And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads, 17 and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.