At the Last Supper, after washing his disciples' feet, Jesus said something of singular importance. He said, You call me master and lord, and you say well for so I am.
The American reader is likely to take these two words, master
and lord
, as synonyms; but when the King James translators sat down and wrote this out, the head of a school was a master
. Even to this day in most English schools the person who runs the school is the headmaster
. Consequently, they chose the word master
because to their English readers it would convey the idea of a teacher; and not merely a garden-variety, run-of-the-mill teacher, but a significant master of his subject.
Jesus said, You call me teacher and lord, and rightly so because that is what I am.
The words in the Greek mean a master of a school
and a sovereign lord
, so they are not synonyms at all; and they define two very different relationships that a person will have with Jesus Christ. So let's take a closer look at these two words, these two relationships, and their significance for a Christian.
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