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Matthew Chapter 19 verse 30 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 19:30

But many shall be last `that are' first; and first `that are' last.
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BBE Matthew 19:30

But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.
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DARBY Matthew 19:30

But many first shall be last, and last first.
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KJV Matthew 19:30

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
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WBT Matthew 19:30

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WEB Matthew 19:30

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.
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YLT Matthew 19:30

and many first shall be last, and last first.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Many that are first. This proverbial saying, which Christ uses more than once (see Matthew 20:16; Luke 13:30), is illustrated by the parable in the next chapter, and would be better placed at its commencement Here it conveys a warning that man's estimation is liable to error, and it must not be thought that those who are first in privilege are therefore highest in God's favour. The Lord may have had in view the case of Judas, who was an early apostle, and had the care of the bag, and fell by reason of covetousness; and that of one like St. Paul, who was called late, and yet laboured more abundantly than all that were before him. The application may be made with perfect truth to many professors of religion.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) Many that are first shall be last.--The words point obviously not only to the general fact of the ultimate reversal of human judgments, but to the individual case of which the disciples had made themselves the judges. They had seen one who stood high in his own estimate brought low by the test of the divine Teacher. They were flattering themselves that they, who had left all, and so could stand that test, were among the first in the hierarchy of the kingdom. For them too, unless their spirit should become other than it was in its self-seeking and its self-complacence, there might be an unexpected change of position, and the first might become the last. The parable that follows was designed to bring that truth more vividly before them.