Matthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
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In Context
27and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—
29As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Psalms 49:7No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Matthew 26:28This is My blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 22:27For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you 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 →