23:7 and elaborate greetings 1 in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’
23:8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.
23:9 And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
23:10 Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one teacher, the Christ. 2
1 sn There is later Jewish material in the Talmud that spells out such greetings in detail. See H. Windisch, TDNT 1:498.
2 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”