Mark 10:44
Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.) Mark 10:44 appears in the Greek New Testament. The text above is from the Tischendorf 8th edition. Each word links to its Strong’s number and a concise gloss. Click any word for its full Thayer’s Greek Lexicon entry.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
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King James Version Public Domain
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and whoever desires to be first among you will be a slave of all.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.
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King James Version Public Domain
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And whosoeuer will be chiefe of you, shall be the seruant of all.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And whosoever will be first among you, shall be the servant of all.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and whoever of you may will to become first, he shall be servant of all;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and whoever of you may will to become first, he will be servant of all;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and whoever wishes to be first among you must be the slave of all.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and whoever desires to be first among you will be a slave of all.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and whosoever would be first of you shall be bondman of all.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And whoever of you will be the chief, shall be servant of all.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and anyone who wants to be first among you must be the slave of all of you.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.
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Text-Critical English NT CC BY 4.0
and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to all.
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Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain
And whosoever wilbe chefe shalbe servaunt vnto all.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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- Appears 100× in the Greek New Testament
- First appears at Matthew 10:2
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Case
- Nominative
- Number
- Singular
- Gender
- Masculine
- Degree
- Superlative
Full Thayer's Definition
- καὶ kaí G2532 “and” Conjunction
- ὃς hós G3739 “who” Relative pronoun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine
- ἂν án G302 “if” Particle
- θέλῃ thélō G2309 “to will” Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular
- ὑμῶν hymeîs G5210 “you” Personal pronoun, 2nd person, Genitive, Plural
- γενέσθαι gínomai G1096 “to become” Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive
- πρῶτος prōtos G4413 “first” Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Superlative
- ἔσται eimí G1510 “to be” Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular
- πάντων pâs G3956 “all” Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine
- δοῦλος doûlos G1401 “slave” Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Gospels
- section
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Mark, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is prōtos (“first”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word prōtos carries the sense “first.” How does it shape the verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Reading how Bengel's Gnomon and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
- 10 distinct Greek lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Mark 10:44 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Bengel's Gnomon
Johann Albrecht Bengel
Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.