and whoever desires to be first among you must be the bondservant of all.
If any one wishes to go to law with you and to deprive you of your under garment, let him take your outer one also.
but it is not to be so among you. No, whoever desires to be great among you must be your servant;
For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people.«
Then sitting down He called the Twelve, and said to them, »If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.«
Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.