Luke Chapter 22 verse 24 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 22:24

And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.
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BBE Luke 22:24

And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.
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DARBY Luke 22:24

And there was also a strife among them which of them should be held to be [the] greatest.
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KJV Luke 22:24

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
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WBT Luke 22:24


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WEB Luke 22:24

There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
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YLT Luke 22:24

And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 24-30. - The jealousy, among the disciples. Verse 24. - And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. The Lord's words in these verses are peculiar to St. Luke. The strife among the disciples which suggested the Lord's corrective sayings was evidently no mere dispute as to precedence in their places at the supper, but some question as to their respective positions in the coming kingdom of which their Master had said so much in the course of his later instructions. It is closely connected with the "feet-washing" related at length by St. John (John 13:4-17). This has been well described as a parable in action, exhibited to illustrate forcibly the novel and sublime truth which he was teaching them, the world-teachers of the future, that in self sacrifice consisted the secret of true greatness. In the kingdom of heaven this would be found to be conspicuously the case.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) And there was also a strife among them.--The incident that follows is peculiar to St. Luke. The noun which he uses for "strife" does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, but the corresponding adjective meets us in the "contentious" of 1Corinthians 11:16. The dispute was apparently the sequel of many previous debates of the same kind, as, e.g., in Luke 9:46; Matthew 18:1; Mark 9:34; and the prayer of the two sons of Zebedee (Matthew 20:23; Mark 10:37). What had just passed probably led to its revival. Who was greatest? Was it Peter, to whom had been promised the keys of the kingdom, or John, who reclined on the Master's bosom, or Andrew, who had been first-called? Even the disciples who were in the second group of the Twelve, might have cherished the hope that those who had been thus rebuked for their ambition or their want of faith had left a place vacant to which they might now hopefully aspire. . . .