Luke 22:27
Good News Translation
Who is greater, the one who sits down to eat or the one who serves? The one who sits down, of course. But I am among you as one who serves.

New Revised Standard Version
For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
For who is greater: the one seated at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one seated at table? I am among you as the one who serves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth.

Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

Luke 17:7-9 But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go. Sit down to meat. . . .

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

John 13:5-16 After that, he putteth water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

Philippians 2:7,8 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. . . .

Context
Who is the Greatest?
26But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth. 27For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth. 28And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations:…
Cross References
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

John 13:12
Then after he had washed their feet and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you?

Luke 22:26
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