Mateo 20:25

25 Entonces Jesús llamándolos, dijo: Ya sabéis que los príncipes de los gentiles se enseñorean sobre ellos, y los que son grandes ejercen sobre ellos potestad

Mateo 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.

Mateo 20:25 In-Context

23 Y él les dice: A la verdad mi vaso beberéis, y del bautismo con que yo soy bautizado, seréis bautizados; mas el sentaros a mi mano derecha y a mi izquierda, no es mío darlo, sino a los que está aparejado por mi Padre

24 Cuando los diez oyeron esto, se enojaron con los dos hermanos

25 Entonces Jesús llamándolos, dijo: Ya sabéis que los príncipes de los gentiles se enseñorean sobre ellos, y los que son grandes ejercen sobre ellos potestad

26 Mas entre vosotros no será así; sino el que quisiere entre vosotros hacerse grande, será vuestro servidor

27 Y el que quisiere entre vosotros ser el primero, será vuestro siervo