Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And whosoever wilbe chefe shalbe servaunt vnto all.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And whosoeuer will be chiefe of you, shall be the seruant of all.

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when he heard that it was Jesus of…

And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,.... "That passed by", as reads the Persic version; which he might learn, by inquiring the meaning of such a multitude of people, and the noise; or he might hear his name frequently mentioned, and it said, that, he, was coming, or passing by:

he began to cry out; aloud, and with great vehemency, and often repeating it:

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and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me: he did not call him Jesus of Nazareth, as the common people did, but Jesus, the son of David, a title of the Messiah; nor did he ask for money, but for mercy; See Gill on Mat 20:30.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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