Luke 22:24

New King James Version

Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then a dispute also arose among them about who should be considered the greatest.

King James Version (1611)
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should bee accompted the greatest.

King James Version
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

English Standard Version
A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

New American Standard Bible
And a dispute also developed among them as to which one of them was regarded as being the greatest.

New Century Version
The apostles also began to argue about which one of them was the most important.

Amplified Bible
Now a dispute also arose among them as to which of them was regarded to be the greatest.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

Berean Standard Bible
A dispute also arose among the disciples as to which of them would be considered the greatest.

Contemporary English Version
The apostles got into an argument about which one of them was the greatest.

Complete Jewish Bible
An argument arose among them as to which of them should be considered the greatest.

Darby Translation
And there was also a strife among them which of them should be held to be [the] greatest.

Easy-to-Read Version
Later, the apostles began to argue about which one of them was the most important.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And there arose also a strife among them, which of them should seeme to be ye greatest.

George Lamsa Translation
There was also a dispute among them, as to who is the greatest among them.

Good News Translation
An argument broke out among the disciples as to which one of them should be thought of as the greatest.

Lexham English Bible
And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest.

Literal Translation
And there was also a dispute among them, who of them seems to be greater.

American Standard Version
And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.

Bible in Basic English
And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

Hebrew Names Version
There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

International Standard Version
Now an argument sprang up among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.Mark 9:34; Luke 9:46;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But there was also a contention among them, who of them was the greatest.

Murdock Translation
And there was contention also among them, who among them would be greatest.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there was a stryfe among the, which of them shoulde seeme to be the greatest.

English Revised Version
And there arose also a contention among them, which of them is accounted to be greatest.

World English Bible
There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
There was also a contention among them, Which of them was greatest.

Weymouth's New Testament
There arose also a dispute among them which of them should be regarded as greatest.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And strijf was maad among hem, which of hem schulde be seyn to be grettest.

Update Bible Version
And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

New English Translation
A dispute also started among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

New Living Translation
Then they began to argue among themselves about who would be the greatest among them.

New Life Bible
They started to argue among themselves about who was thought to be the greatest.

New Revised Standard
A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass that there was, a rivalry also, among them, as to which of them seemed to be greater than the rest .

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater.

Revised Standard Version
A dispute also arose among them, which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ther was a stryfe amoge the which of them shuld be taken for the greatest.

Young's Literal Translation
And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There rose a strife also amoge the, which of them shulde be take for the greatest.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Now there had been a dispute among the disciples, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

THE MESSAGE
Within minutes they were bickering over who of them would end up the greatest. But Jesus intervened: "Kings like to throw their weight around and people in authority like to give themselves fancy titles. It's not going to be that way with you. Let the senior among you become like the junior; let the leader act the part of the servant.

Simplified Cowboy Version
This set off an argument about who was the best cowboy in their crew.

Contextual Overview

²¹ But behold, the hand of My betrayer is with Me on the table. ²² And truly the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!" ²³ Then they began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing. ²⁴ Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest. ²⁵ And He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called "benefactors.' ²⁶ But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. ²⁷ For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves. ²⁸ "But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials. ²⁹ And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me, ³⁰ that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 9:46, Matthew 20:20-24, Mark 9:34, Mark 10:37-41, Romans 12:10, 1 Corinthians 13:4, Philippians 2:3-5, James 4:5, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:10 - and seek Judges 8:23 - I will Proverbs 13:10 - Only Matthew 5:19 - great Matthew 18:1 - Who Matthew 20:21 - Grant Mark 10:41 - they Romans 12:16 - Mind 1 Peter 5:3 - as 3 John 1:9 - who loveth

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 25:6
But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.

Proverbs 15:25
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, But He will establish the boundary of the widow.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was also a strife among them,.... The Persic version reads, "at a certain time there was a contention among the apostles"; and some think, that this refers to the time when the mother of Zebedee's two sons asked the favour of Christ, to set one of them at his right hand, and the other at his left, in his kingdom; which greatly incensed the other disciples, and occasioned a dispute about precedence; when our Lord interposed, and used much the same arguments as here; and which, it is thought, Luke here inserts out of the proper place. The Ethiopic version renders it, "then his disciples disputed among themselves"; pinning it down to this very time: and what might give occasion to the present dispute, may be what Christ had said concerning the kingdom of God,

Luke 22:16 which they understanding of the temporal kingdom of the Messiah, and fancying, by his words, that it was near at hand, began to strive among themselves who should be the greatest in it; or it might be brought on by their inquiry among themselves, who should betray him, which might lead them on each one to throw off the imputation from himself, and to commend himself as a steady follower of Jesus, and to express his hopes of being his chief favourite, and principal minister in his kingdom: for the strife was,

which of them should be accounted the greatest; by Christ; or that should be so in his kingdom. Perhaps the contention might be chiefly between Peter, James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, and who were the favourite disciples of Christ; and Peter might urge his seniority, and what Christ had said to him, Matthew 16:18 and the rather, since it is certain Satan was now busy about him; wherefore Christ calls him by name, and singles him out among the rest,

Luke 22:31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A strife - A contention or debate.

Which of them should be the greatest - The apostles, in common with the Jews generally, had supposed that the Messiah would come as a temporal prince, and in the manner of other princes of the earth - of course, that he would have officers of his government, ministers of state, etc. Their contention was founded on this expectation, and they were disputing which of them should be raised to the highest office. They had before had a similar contention. See Matthew 18:1; Matthew 20:20-28. Nothing can be more humiliating than that the disciples should have had “such” contentions, and in such a time and place. That just as Jesus was contemplating his own death, and laboring to prepare them for it, they should strive and contend about office and rank, shows how deeply seated is the love of power; how ambition will find its way into the most secret and sacred places; and how even the disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus are sometimes actuated by this most base and wicked feeling.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 22:24. There was also a strife among them — There are two different instances of this sort of contention or strife mentioned by the evangelists, each of which was accompanied with very different circumstances; one by Matthew, in Matthew 18:1, c., by Mark, Mark 9:33, c. and by Luke, in Luke 9:46, c. That contention cannot have been the same with this which is mentioned here. The other, related in Matthew 20:20, &c., and Mark 10:35, &c., must be what Luke intended here to record and this strife or contention was occasioned by the request which Zebedee's wife made to our Lord in favour of her sons, James and John but, then, Luke has mentioned this very much out of the order of time, it having happened while our Lord and his disciples were on their way to Jerusalem: Matthew 20:17; Mark 10:32. See Bp. PEARCE.