A contention which should be the greatest (peculiar to Lk). This contention is probably to be placed at the very beginning of the supper, before the feet-washing: see on John 13:1. Our Lord had previously rebuked a very similar contention provoked by the ambition of the sons of Zebedee: see Matthew 20:25, where almost the same words are used.

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