Λουκᾶν 22:24

Greek Modern Translation

Εγεινε δε και φιλονεικια μεταξυ αυτων, περι του τις εξ αυτων νομιζεται οτι ειναι μεγαλητερος.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
εγενετο δε και φιλονεικια εν αυτοις το τις αυτων δοκει ειναι μειζων

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
Ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ φιλονεικία ἐν αὐτοῖς, τὸ τίς αὐτῶν δοκεῖ εἶναι μείζων.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
Ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ φιλονεικία ἐν αὐτοῖς, τὸ τίς αὐτῶν δοκεῖ εἶναι μείζων.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
εγενετο δε και φιλονεικια εν αυτοις το τις αυτων δοκει ειναι μειζων

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
εγενετο δε και φιλονεικια εν αυτοις το τις αυτων δοκει ειναι μειζων

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

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.