Matthew 23:10 Parallel Translations
NASB: "Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Don't make others call you a leader, because you have only one leader, the Messiah.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
ASV: Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ.
BBE: And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.
DBY: Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ.
ERV: Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ.
WEY: And do not accept the name of 'leader,' for your Leader is one alone--the Christ.
WBS: Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even Christ.
WEB: Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
YLT: nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.
Matthew 23:10 Cross References
XREF:Matthew 23:9 "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Matthew 23:11 "But the greatest among you shall be your servant. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 23:10 Neither be ye called {k} masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ.
(k) It seems that the scribes hunted very greatly after such titles, these scribes being the ones whom he called blind guides in Mt 23:16.
PNT: 23:10 Master. Also an honorary title. All such are to be avoided in the church.
WES: 23:8-10 The Jewish rabbis were also called father and master, by their several disciples, whom they required, To believe implicitly what they affirmed, without asking any farther reason; To obey implicitly what they enjoined, without seeking farther authority. Our Lord, therefore, by forbidding us either to give or receive the title of rabbi, master, or father, forbids us either to receive any such reverence, or to pay any such to any but God.
MHC: 23:1-12 The scribes and Pharisees explained the law of Moses, and enforced obedience to it. They are charged with hypocrisy in religion. We can only judge according to outward appearance; but God searches the heart. They made phylacteries. These were scrolls of paper or parchment, wherein were written four paragraphs of the law, to be worn on their foreheads and left arms, Ex 13:2-10; 13:11-16; De 6:4-9; 11:13-21. They made these phylacteries broad, that they might be thought more zealous for the law than others. God appointed the Jews to make fringes upon their garments, Nu 15:38, to remind them of their being a peculiar people; but the Pharisees made them larger than common, as if they were thereby more religious than others. Pride was the darling, reigning sin of the Pharisees, the sin that most easily beset them, and which our Lord Jesus takes all occasions to speak against. For him that is taught in the word to give respect to him that teaches, is commendable; but for him that teaches, to demand it, to be puffed up with it, is sinful. How much is all this against the spirit of Christianity! The consistent disciple of Christ is pained by being put into chief places. But who that looks around on the visible church, would think this was the spirit required? It is plain that some measure of this antichristian spirit prevails in every religious society, and in every one of our hearts.
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