22 24 Then a jealous dispute broke out: who among them should rank highest? 22 25 But he said, 'In the world, kings lord it over their subjects; and those in authority are called their country's "Benefactors". 22 26 Not so with you: on the contrary, the highest among you must bear himself like the youngest, the chief of you like a servant. 22 27 For who is greater—the one who sits at table or the servant who waits on him? Surely the one who sits at table. Yet here am I among you like a servant.
22 28 'You are the men who have stood firmly by me in my times of trial; 22 29 and now I vest in you the kingship which my Father vested in me; 22 30 you shall eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones Or: trial; and as my Father gave me the right to reign, so I give you the right to eat and to drink ... and to sit ... as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.