Ford Madox Brown (1856)
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Compare Matthew 23:11; Mark 9:35; Luke 9:48; 12:50; 22:24-27; John 13:4-5, 12-17
It’s oddly comforting to learn that even the apostles James and John were very human, flawed like the rest of us. That offers hope that we, too, can be saved.
What’s also significant here, though, is the thorough “transvaluation of values” taught by Jesus. Greatness comes not through lordship and status, but through servanthood.
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