Neither be ye called masters; καθηγηται ì: leaders, guides. This is just what the Pharisees claimed to be (see Matthew 23:16 and Romans 2:19,, Romans 2:20). One is your master ( καθηγητη ìς, Leader), even [the] Christ.
Hero Jesus announces himself, not only as their Teacher, but as the Messiah, their Ruler and Guide. He is censuring that sectarian spirit which began in the primitive Church, when one said," I am of Paul; another, I of Apollos," etc.
(1 Corinthians 1:12), and has continued to this day in the division of the one body into innumerable sects and, parties, ranged under various leaders, and generally bearing their founder's name. "What then is Apollos?
and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him" (1 Corinthians 3:5). How mournful to think that Christ's great prayer for unity (John 17:1-26.) is still unfulfilled, frustrated or delayed by man's self-will!