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OET (OET-RV) So Yeshua sat down and called the twelve of them and explained, “Anyone who wants to be at the top, has to be at the bottom and help all the others.”
OET-LV And having_sat_down, he_called the twelve and is_saying to_them:
If anyone is_wanting to_be first, he_will_be last of_all and servant of_all.
SR-GNT Καὶ καθίσας, ἐφώνησεν τοὺς δώδεκα καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, “Εἴ τις θέλει πρῶτος εἶναι, ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος καὶ πάντων διάκονος.” ‡
(Kai kathisas, efōnaʸsen tous dōdeka kai legei autois, “Ei tis thelei prōtos einai, estai pantōn esⱪatos kai pantōn diakonos.”)
Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
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 And having sat down, he called the Twelve together and says to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and a servant of all.”
UST Jesus sat down. He called the Twelve Representatives to come close to him, and then he said to them, “If anyone wants God to consider him to be the most important person of all, he must consider himself to be the least important person of all, and he must serve everyone else.”
BSB § Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all.”
BLB And having sat down, He called the Twelve, and He says to them, "If anyone desires to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all."
AICNT And sitting down, he called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.”
OEB Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, ‘If anyone wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and servant of all.’
WEBBE He sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
WMBB (Same as above)
NET After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
LSV and having sat down He called the Twelve, and He says to them, “If any wills to be first, he will be last of all, and minister of all.”
FBV Jesus sat down and called the twelve disciples together. “If anyone wants to be first, he has to be the very last, the servant of everyone else,” he told them.
TCNT So Jesus sat down, called the twelve over, and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and a servant to all.”
T4T He sat down, he summoned the twelve disciples to come close to him, and then he said to them, “If anyone wants God to consider him to be the most important person of all, he must consider himself to be the least important person of all, and he must serve everyone else.”
LEB And he sat down and[fn] called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.”
9:35 *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sat down”) has been translated as a finite verb
BBE And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.
Moff No Moff MARK book available
Wymth Then sitting down He called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
ASV And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.
DRA And taking a child, he set him in the midst of them. Whom when he had embraced, he saith to them:
YLT and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, 'If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'
Drby And sitting down he called the twelve; and he says to them, If any one would be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.
RV And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.
Wbstr And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith to them, If any man desireth to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
KJB-1769 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
(And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith/says unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. )
KJB-1611 And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and saith vnto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and seruant of all.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
Bshps And when he was set downe, he called the twelue to hym, and sayde vnto them: If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of al, & seruaut vnto al.
(And when he was set down, he called the twelve to him, and said unto them: If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant unto al.)
Gnva And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of all, and seruant vnto all.
(And he sat down, and called the twelve, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant unto all. )
Cvdl And he sat downe, and called the twolue, and sayde vnto them: Yf eny man wyl be the first, the same shal be the last of all, and the seruaunt of all.
(And he sat down, and called the twelve, and said unto them: If any man will be the first, the same shall be the last of all, and the servant of all.)
TNT And he sate doune and called the twelve vnto him and sayd to them: yf eny man desyre to be fyrst the same shalbe last of all and servaunt vnto all.
(And he sat down and called the twelve unto him and said to them: if any man desire to be first the same shall be last of all and servant unto all. )
Wycl And he took a child, and sette hym in the myddil of hem; and whanne he hadde biclippid hym, he seide to hem,
(And he took a child, and set him in the middle of hem; and when he had biclippid him, he said to them,)
Luth Und er setzte sich und rief den Zwölfen und sprach zu ihnen: So jemand will der Erste sein, der soll der Letzte sein vor allen und aller Knecht.
(And he sat itself/yourself/themselves and shouted the Zwölfen and spoke to to_them: So someone will the/of_the Erste sein, the/of_the should the/of_the Letzte his before/in_front_of all and aller Knecht.)
ClVg Et accipiens puerum, statuit eum in medio eorum: quem cum complexus esset, ait illis:[fn]
(And accipiens puerum, statuit him in in_the_middle their: which when/with complexus esset, he_said illis: )
9.35 Complexus. Significat humiles dignos esse suo complexu, qui jure possunt gloriari et dicere: Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me Cant. 2..
9.35 Complexus. Significat humiles dignos esse his_own complexu, who yure possunt gloriari and dicere: Læva his under capite meo, and dextera illius amplexabitur me Cant. 2..
UGNT καὶ καθίσας, ἐφώνησεν τοὺς δώδεκα καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, εἴ τις θέλει πρῶτος εἶναι, ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος καὶ πάντων διάκονος.
(kai kathisas, efōnaʸsen tous dōdeka kai legei autois, ei tis thelei prōtos einai, estai pantōn esⱪatos kai pantōn diakonos.)
SBL-GNT καὶ καθίσας ἐφώνησεν τοὺς δώδεκα καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Εἴ τις θέλει πρῶτος εἶναι ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος καὶ πάντων διάκονος.
(kai kathisas efōnaʸsen tous dōdeka kai legei autois; Ei tis thelei prōtos einai estai pantōn esⱪatos kai pantōn diakonos.)
TC-GNT Καὶ καθίσας ἐφώνησε τοὺς δώδεκα, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Εἴ τις θέλει πρῶτος εἶναι, ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος, καὶ πάντων διάκονος.
(Kai kathisas efōnaʸse tous dōdeka, kai legei autois, Ei tis thelei prōtos einai, estai pantōn esⱪatos, kai pantōn diakonos. )
Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).
9:35 Jesus sat down, assuming the role of a teacher (see 4:1-2; 12:41; Matt 5:1; Luke 4:20; 5:3). True greatness in God’s Kingdom involves being the servant of everyone else, not the master, as Jesus would make clear by his own example in Mark 10:45.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
καθίσας
/having/_sat_down
In Jesus’ culture, teachers usually sat down when they were going to teach. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “having sat down to instruct them” or “having sat down as a teacher does”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
τοὺς δώδεκα
the twelve
See how you translated the phrase the Twelve in 3:16. Alternate translation: “the 12 apostles” or “the 12 men whom Jesus had chosen to be apostles”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
εἴ τις θέλει πρῶτος εἶναι, ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος
if anyone /is/_wanting first to_be ˱he˲_will_be ˱of˲_all last
Being first refers to people who are esteemed by others because of their social position, wealth, and privileges. Being last refers to people who are not esteemed by others, because they lack social position, wealth, and privileges. Jesus speaks of being the “most important” as being first and of being the “least important” as being last. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable figure of speech or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “If anyone wants to be respected, he will be the least respected of all” or “If anyone wants to be significant, he will be the least significant of all”
Note 4 topic: translate-ordinal
πρῶτος
first
If your language does not use ordinal numbers such as first, you can express the meaning behind the word first in a way that would be natural in your language. Alternate translation: “number one”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / declarative
ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος καὶ πάντων διάκονος
˱he˲_will_be ˱of˲_all last and ˱of˲_all servant
Jesus is using a future statement to give an instruction. If it would be helpful in your language, you can use a more natural form for instruction. Alternate translation: “he must act like the last of all and a servant of all”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
πάντων & πάντων
˱of˲_all & ˱of˲_all
Jesus is using the adjective all as a noun to mean all people. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “of all people … of all people”