Matthew 20:28
as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
27and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;
29And as they went out from Jericho a great crowd followed him.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering;
Psalms 49:7None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
Isaiah 53:8He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
Matthew 26:28For this is my blood, that of the [new] covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.
Luke 22:27For which [is] greater, he that is at table or he that serves? [Is] not he that is at table? But *I* am in the midst of you as the one that 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 →