"The greatest among you shall be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be
exalted."
After his rage against the hypocrisy of the
pharisees - of not practising what they preach - we know how Jesus fulfils the
very qualities he then exhorts, thereby categorically distinguishing himself
from their hypocrisy. We do not follow a hypocrite. Jesus not only said
‘Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his
friends’ (John 15.13); he also did it.
Jonathan de Leyser
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