Unhappiness of Striving to be Great
Luke 9:46-48
Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.…


"Some time since," says Dr. Payson, in a letter to a young clergyman, "I took up a little work purporting to be the lives of sundry characters as related by themselves. Two of those characters agreed in remarking that they were never happy until they ceased striving to be great men."



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.

WEB: There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.




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