Luke 22:24
New International Version
A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest.

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

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

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

Berean Literal Bible
And there was also a dispute among them which of them is thought to be the greatest.

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

New King James Version
Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered 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.

NASB 1995
And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

NASB 1977
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.

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But there was also a dispute among them, of who among them was great.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then a quarrel broke out among the disciples. They argued about who should be considered the greatest.

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

International Standard Version
Now an argument sprang up among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

Literal Standard Version
And there happened also a strife among them—who of them is accounted to be greater.

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

New American Bible
Then an argument broke out among them about which of them should be regarded as the greatest.

NET Bible
A dispute also started among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

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

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

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

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

World English Bible
A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

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

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Context
Who is the Greatest?
23Then they began to question among themselves which of them was going to do this. 24 A dispute also arose among the disciples as to which of them would be considered the greatest. 25So Jesus declared, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them call themselves benefactors.…

Cross References
Matthew 18:1
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

Mark 9:34
But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest.

Luke 9:46
Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.

Luke 22:23
Then they began to question among themselves which of them was going to do this.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Luke 9:46
Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.

Matthew 20:20-24
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him…

Mark 9:34
But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

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Luke 22
1. The leaders conspire against Jesus.
3. Satan prepares Judas to betray him.
7. The apostles prepare the Passover.
19. Jesus institutes his holy supper;
21. covertly foretells of the traitor;
24. rebukes the rest of his apostles from ambition;
31. assures Peter his faith should not fail;
34. and yet he should deny him thrice.
39. He prays in the mount, and sweats blood;
47. is betrayed with a kiss;
50. he heals Malchus' ear;
54. he is thrice denied by Peter;
63. shamefully abused;
66. and confesses himself to be the Son of God.














(24) And there was also a strife among them.--The incident that follows is peculiar to St. Luke. The noun which he uses for "strife" does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, but the corresponding adjective meets us in the "contentious" of 1Corinthians 11:16. The dispute was apparently the sequel of many previous debates of the same kind, as, e.g., in Luke 9:46; Matthew 18:1; Mark 9:34; and the prayer of the two sons of Zebedee (Matthew 20:23; Mark 10:37). What had just passed probably led to its revival. Who was greatest? Was it Peter, to whom had been promised the keys of the kingdom, or John, who reclined on the Master's bosom, or Andrew, who had been first-called? Even the disciples who were in the second group of the Twelve, might have cherished the hope that those who had been thus rebuked for their ambition or their want of faith had left a place vacant to which they might now hopefully aspire. . . . Verses 24-30. - The jealousy, among the disciples. Verse 24. - And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. The Lord's words in these verses are peculiar to St. Luke. The strife among the disciples which suggested the Lord's corrective sayings was evidently no mere dispute as to precedence in their places at the supper, but some question as to their respective positions in the coming kingdom of which their Master had said so much in the course of his later instructions. It is closely connected with the "feet-washing" related at length by St. John (John 13:4-17). This has been well described as a parable in action, exhibited to illustrate forcibly the novel and sublime truth which he was teaching them, the world-teachers of the future, that in self sacrifice consisted the secret of true greatness. In the kingdom of heaven this would be found to be conspicuously the case.

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Greek
A dispute
φιλονεικία (philoneikia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5379: Love of dispute, contention. From philoneikos; quarrelsomeness, i.e. A dispute.

also
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

arose
Ἐγένετο (Egeneto)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

among
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the disciples]
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[as to]
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

which
τίς (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

of them
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

would be considered
δοκεῖ (dokei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1380: A prolonged form of a primary verb, doko dok'-o of the same meaning; to think; by implication, to seem.

[the] greatest.
μείζων (meizōn)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular - Comparative
Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.


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