For he that is least among you all. — The addition in this place and this form are peculiar to St. Luke’s report, but agree in substance with Mark 9:35.
The same shall be great. — The better MSS. give, “the same is great,” the greatness not being thrown forward as a compensation to be received in the far-off future, but thought of as actually attained in the midst of, and by means of, the seeming humiliation.