Joel Green: Are we to be benefactors or servants?

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“…turn from obsession with status to a comparable attentiveness to the needs of others.”

And Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you; rather let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. Luke 22:24-25

Joel B. Green in Luke (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997) 769.