Marcos 10:42

42 Mas Jesús, llamándolos, les dice: Sabéis que los que se ven ser príncipes entre los gentiles, se enseñorean de ellos, y los que entre ellos son grandes, tienen sobre ellos potestad.

Marcos 10:42 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:42

But Jesus called them to him
Who were at some little distance from him, though so nigh, that he could discern the heat and passion they were in, and knowing that they had the same ambitious views with the two brethren:

and saith unto them,
to check their pride and vanity and reprove them for their ambitious desires of superiority and pre-eminence over, one another; by showing them that this was a part which the Heathens that knew not God acted and therefore was very unbecoming them:

you know that they which are accounted,
or "seem to" or rather "do",

rule over the Gentiles;
or are reckoned worthy of government who are, (Mybwvx) , men of honour, reputation, and esteem; who are either by birth or merit thought to be deserving of high places: these

exercise lordship over them;
rule over them in a lordly tyrannical and arbitrary way:

and their great ones;
their nobles and lords under them

exercise authority over them;
the Gentiles; by a delegated power from those who have the supreme rule; (See Gill on Matthew 20:25).

Marcos 10:42 In-Context

40 Mas que os sentéis a mi diestra y a mi siniestra, no es mío darlo, sino a quienes está aparejado.

41 Cuando lo oyeron los diez, comenzaron a enojarse contra Jacobo y Juan.

42 Mas Jesús, llamándolos, les dice: Sabéis que los que se ven ser príncipes entre los gentiles, se enseñorean de ellos, y los que entre ellos son grandes, tienen sobre ellos potestad.

43 Mas no será así entre vosotros: antes cualquiera que quisiere hacerse grande entre vosotros, será vuestro servidor;

44 y cualquiera de vosotros que quisiere hacerse el primero, será siervo de todos.