The Question About Who Is Greatest

33 And they came to Capernaum. And after he[a] was in the house, he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 But they were silent, because they had argued with one another on the way about who was greatest. 35 And he sat down and[b] called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:33 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Mark 9:35 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sat down”) has been translated as a finite verb