Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many.”
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In Context
27and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;
29And they going forth from Jericho, there followed Him a great multitude,
Cross References
Numbers 7:15one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;
Psalms 49:7A brother ransoms no one at all, || He does not give to God his atonement.
Isaiah 53:8By restraint and by judgment He has been taken, || And of His generation who meditates, || That He has been cut off from the land of the living? He is plagued by the transgression of My people,
Daniel 9:24Seventy periods of seven are determined for your people and for your holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in continuous righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.
Matthew 26:28for this is My blood of the New Covenant, that is being poured out for many, for forgiveness of sins;
Luke 22:27for who is greater? He who is reclining, or he who is ministering? Is it not he who is reclining? And I am in your midst as He who is ministering.
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 →