Are called benefactors ( εὐεργέται). Those who were listening knew well how utterly false these high-sounding human titles often were. εὐεργέτης (Euergetes), Benefactor, was the well-known title appropriated by Ptolemy Euergetes and other hated royal tyrants well known to the Jewish people.
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Luke 22:25
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