MAT 20:26 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) But among all of you, it shouldn’t be like that. Instead anyone who wants to become great should be your servant,

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT It is not this way among you. Instead, whoever desires to become great among you will be your servant,

UST You must not behave like that. Rather, when one of you wants to be important, that person must serve the others.

BSB It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

BLB Thus will it not be among you. But whoever wishes to become great among you, he will be your servant;

AICNT It will not be so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you will be your servant,

OEB Among you it is not so.

WEBBE It shall not be so amongst you; but whoever desires to become great amongst you shall be[fn] your servant.

20:26 TR reads “let him be” instead of “shall be”

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

LSV but not so will it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your servant;

FBV It shall not be like that for you. Whoever among you wants to be the most important will be your servant.

TCNT But it [fn]shall not be so among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

20:26 shall ¦ is WH

T4T You should not be like them. On the contrary, everyone among you who wants God to consider him great must become like a servant for the rest of you.

LEB It will not be like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

BBE Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;

Moff No Moff MAT book available

Wymth Not so shall it be among you; but whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant,

ASV Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

DRA It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:

YLT but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

Drby It shall not be thus amongst you, but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your servant;

RV Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

Wbstr But it shall not be so among you: but whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

KJB-1769 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

KJB-1611 But it shall not be so among you: But whosoeuer will bee great among you, let him be your minister.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps It shall not be so among you: But whosoeuer wyll be great among you, let hym be your minister:
(It shall not be so among you: But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister:)

Gnva But it shall not be so among you: but whosoeuer will be great among you, let him be your seruant.
(But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your servant. )

Cvdl It shal not be so amonge you. But whoso euer wyl be greate amonge you, let him be youre mynister:
(It shall not be so among you. But whoso ever will be great among you, let him be your(pl) minister:)

TNT It shall not be so amonge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amonge you let him be youre minister:
(It shall not be so among you. But whosoever will be great among you let him be your(pl) minister: )

Wycl It schal not be so among you; but who euer wole be maad gretter among you, be he youre mynystre; and who euer among you wole be the firste, he schal be youre seruaunt.
(It shall not be so among you; but who ever will be made greater among you, be he your(pl) mynystre; and who ever among you will be the first, he shall be your(pl) servant.)

Luth So soll es nicht sein unter euch, sondern so jemand will unter euch gewaltig sein, der sei euer Diener;
(So should it not his under you, rather so someone will under you gewaltig sein, the/of_the be euer Diener;)

ClVg Non ita erit inter vos: sed quicumque voluerit inter vos major fieri, sit vester minister:
(Non ita will_be between vos: but quicumque voluerit between you mayor fieri, let_it_be vester minister: )

UGNT οὐχ οὕτως ἔστιν ἐν ὑμῖν; ἀλλ’ ὃς ἐὰν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι, ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος;
(ouⱪ houtōs estin en humin; all’ hos ean thelaʸ en humin megas genesthai, estai humōn diakonos;)

SBL-GNT οὐχ οὕτως ⸀ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν· ἀλλʼ ὃς ⸀ἂν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος,
(ouⱪ houtōs ⸀estai en humin; allʼ hos ⸀an thelaʸ en humin megas genesthai estai humōn diakonos,)

TC-GNT Οὐχ οὕτω [fn]δὲ [fn]ἔσται [fn]ἐν ὑμῖν· ἀλλ᾽ ὃς [fn]ἐὰν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι [fn]ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος·
(Ouⱪ houtō de estai en humin; all hos ean thelaʸ en humin megas genesthai estai humōn diakonos; )

20:26 δε ¦ — ANT CT

20:26 εσται ¦ εστιν WH

20:26 εν ¦ — PCK

20:26 εαν ¦ αν SBL TH WH

20:26 εσται ¦ εστω TR

Key for above GNTs: red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / declarative

οὐχ οὕτως ἔστιν

not thus (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οὐχ οὕτως ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν ἀλλʼ ὃς ἐὰν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος)

Here Jesus could be using the present tense to: (1) give a command or instruction. Alternate translation: [It should not be this way] or [Let it not be this way] (2) state how things work differently among his disciples. Alternate translation: [That is not how it is]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

ὃς ἐὰν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι, ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος & καὶ ὃς ἂν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν εἶναι πρῶτος, ἔσται ὑμῶν δοῦλος

whoever ¬if /may_be/_wanting among you_all great /to/_become ˱he˲_will_be ˱of˲_you_all servant (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οὐχ οὕτως ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν ἀλλʼ ὃς ἐὰν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν μέγας γενέσθαι ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος)

These two sentences mean basically the same thing. The second emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could connect the sentences with a word other than and in order to show that the second sentence is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternatively, you could combine the two sentences Alternate translation: [whoever desires to become great among you will be your servant; indeed, whoever desires to be first among you will be your slave] or [whoever desires to become first or great among will you be your servant or slave]

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