καθίσας ἐφώνησεν τοὺς δώδεκα. Mk alone has this picturesque detail. He commonly sat to teach (see on Mark 13:3), but here He may be resting after the journey.

Εἴ τις θέλει. If any man desireth to be first.

ἔσται πάντων ἔσχατος. This does not mean that the result of striving to be first is degradation, but that the way to be first is self-suppression and service (Mark 10:43-44); de humilitate ad summa crescimus (Cypr. De zelo, 10). This saying is echoed in Ep. of Polycarp 5; see on Mark 14:38.

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