Luke 22:24-30

Who Is the Greatest?

24 ¹A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

25 ²And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles ³exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.

26 ⁴But not so with you. Rather, let ⁵the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.

27 For who is the greater, ⁶one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But ⁷I am among you as the one who serves.

28 “You are those who have stayed with me ⁸in my trials,

29 and ⁹I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,

30 ¹⁰that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and ¹¹sit on thrones judging ¹²the twelve tribes of Israel.

Cross References

• 1. 22:24 ch. 9:46; Mark 9:34
• 2. 22:25 For ver. 25-27, [Matt. 18:1-4; 20:25-28; Mark 10:42-45]
• 3. 22:25 1 Pet. 5:3
• 4. 22:26 ch. 9:48; [Matt. 23:11]
• 5. 22:26 [See ver. 25 above]
• 6. 22:27 [ch. 12:37]
• 7. 22:27 See Matt. 20:28
• 8. 22:28 [See Heb. 2:18; 4:15]
• 9. 22:29 2 Tim. 2:12; [John 17:18]; See Matt. 25:34; 28:18; Acts 14:22; Rev. 1:6
• 10. 22:30 [ver. 16; ch. 13:29; 14:15; Matt. 8:11]
• 11. 22:30 See Matt. 19:28
• 12. 22:30 Acts 26:7; James 1:1; Rev. 21:12