Luke 22:24-30

Contemporary English Version

An Argument about Greatness

^24 (A) The apostles got into an argument about which one of them was the greatest. ^25 (B) So Jesus told them:

Foreign kings order their people around, and powerful rulers call themselves everyone's friends.^{[a] 26 (C)} But don't be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant. ^27 (D) Who do people think is the greatest, a person who is served or one who serves? Isn't it the one who is served? But I have been with you as a servant.

²⁸ You have stayed with me in all my troubles. ²⁹ So I will give you the right to rule as kings, just as my Father has given me the right to rule as a king. ^30 (E) You will eat and drink with me in my kingdom, and you will each sit on a throne to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.