Matthäus 20:25

25 Aber Jesus rief sie zu sich und sprach: Ihr wisset, daß die weltlichen Fürsten herrschen und die Obersten haben Gewalt. {~} {~}

Matthäus 20:25 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 20:25

But Jesus called them unto him
All his twelve disciples, perceiving that the same ambitious views prevailed in them all: to discourage which, and to prevent their quarrelling one with another, he called them to him, and made use of the following reasonings:

and said, ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion
over them,
and they that are great exercise authority upon them; appealing to them in a case that was well known by them, what the princes of the Gentiles did; or, as Mark expresses it, "they which are accounted", or "seem to rule over the Gentiles": who know not God, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, who neither serve and obey him, or have any dependence on him, but assume a power of governing others, take upon them to rule the nations of the world, and are acknowledged as such by them: these claim a superiority over others, and exercise lordly power over them; and they that are their great ones, their lords, and nobles under them; these also assert a preeminence, and exercise authority on those that are below them; which they have received from those that are above them: this is the usual way and method of the governments of the kingdoms of this world: wherefore, for the apostles to affect and desire a superiority to each other, in the kingdom of Christ, was to imitate the Gentiles, and to act according to worldly forms of government; which is very unsuitable to the followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, whose kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world.

Matthäus 20:25 In-Context

23 Und er sprach zu ihnen: Meinen Kelch sollt ihr zwar trinken, und mit der Taufe, mit der ich getauft werde, sollt ihr getauft werden; aber das sitzen zu meiner Rechten und Linken zu geben steht mir nicht zu, sondern denen es bereitet ist von meinem Vater.

24 Da das die zehn hörten, wurden sie unwillig über die zwei Brüder.

25 Aber Jesus rief sie zu sich und sprach: Ihr wisset, daß die weltlichen Fürsten herrschen und die Obersten haben Gewalt. {~} {~}

26 So soll es nicht sein unter euch. Sondern, so jemand will unter euch gewaltig sein, der sei euer Diener;

27 und wer da will der Vornehmste sein, der sei euer Knecht,