Luke 22:28

"For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves."

Key Reflection

Jesus uses this question to challenge the disciples' understanding of leadership and status. By highlighting that even those sitting at the table are servants, Jesus emphasizes his own role as a servant-leader, setting an example for them to follow. This teaches that true greatness lies in service rather than in holding positions of power or prestige.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 28. My temptations. My trials, my humiliations, and my assaults from the power of Satan and a wicked world. And I appoint unto you a kingdom. He assures them here that they should have a kingdom--their expectations would be realized. They had continued with him; they had seen how he had lived, and to what trials he had been subjected; they had all along expected a kingdom, and he assures them that they should not be disappointed. As my Father, &c. They had seen how God had appointed a kingdom to him. It was not with pomp, and splendour, and external glory, but it was in poverty, want, persecution, and trial. So would he appoint to them a kingdom.

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