Matthew 20:28
Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
27and whoever wants be first among you shall be your bondman.
29And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;
Psalms 49:7none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him
Isaiah 53:8In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [was due]?
Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and pr
Matthew 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed on behalf of many for remission of sins.
Luke 22:27For who ranks higher, he who sits dining, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits dining? But I am in the midst of you as he who serves.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:21-29
Ambition Corrected. 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 23… Read the whole commentary →