Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption for many.”
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In Context
27And whoever will want to be first among you, he shall be your servant,
29And as they were departing from Jericho, a great crowd followed him.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15an ox from the herd, and a ram, and a one-year-old lamb as a holocaust,
Psalms 49:7Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
Isaiah 53:8He was lifted up from anguish and judgment. Who will describe his life? For he has been cut off from the land of the living. Because of the wickedness of my people, I have struck him down.
Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks of years are concentrated on your people and on your holy city, so that transgression shall be finished, and sin shall reach an end, and iniquity shall be wiped away, and so that everlasting justice shall be brought in, and vision and prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Saint of saints shall be anointed.
Matthew 26:28For this is my blood of the new covenant, which shall be shed for many as a remission of sins.
Luke 22:27For who is greater: he who sits at table, or he who serves? Is not he who sits at table? Yet I am in your midst as one 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 →