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Luc 9:46

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46 Or, une pensée s'empara d'eux, savoir: Lequel d'entre eux serait le plus grand.

Luc 9:46 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:46

Then there arose a reasoning among them
The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions read, "a thought entered into them"; suggested very likely by Satan, which broke out into words, and issued in a warm dispute among them; and this was in the way, as they were travelling from Caesarea Philippi, to Capernaum; see ( Mark 9:33 ) .

Which of them should be greatest;
that is, "in the kingdom of heaven", as in ( Matthew 18:1 ) in the kingdom of the Messiah, which they expected would be a temporal one: wherefore the dispute was not about degrees in glory, nor in grace; nor who should be the greatest apostle and preacher of the Gospel; but who should be prime minister to the king Messiah, when he should set up his monarchy in all its grandeur and glory.

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Luc 9:46 In-Context

44 Pour vous, écoutez bien ces paroles: Le Fils de l'homme doit être livré entre les mains des hommes.
45 Mais ils n'entendaient point cette parole; elle était si obscure pour eux, qu'ils n'y comprenaient rien; et ils craignaient de l'interroger sur ce sujet.
46 Or, une pensée s'empara d'eux, savoir: Lequel d'entre eux serait le plus grand.
47 Mais Jésus, voyant la pensée de leur cœur, prit un enfant et le plaça auprès de lui, et il leur dit:
48 Quiconque reçoit cet enfant en mon nom, me reçoit; et quiconque me reçoit, reçoit celui qui m'a envoyé. Car celui d'entre vous tous qui est le plus petit, c'est celui-là qui sera grand.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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