To understand Jesus» words we must begin by seeking to understand His immediately preceding statement (in Matthew 20:16), that «the last will be first, and the first last.» (redeeminggod.com)
Whitehead preceded this statement with the proposition that in the evolution of real knowledge a contradiction is not the signal of defeat but the first step in progress towards a victory. (religion-online.org)
The numbers preceding each statement are numeric identifiers; sometimes they appear with the text, and sometimes they do not. (reasoncode.org)