Matthew 20:28
+ 20:28. MP: “All people will serve” this Son of Man. The word for serve in Aramaic and Greek, pelach, refers to service due to God. (Dan 7:14, 7:27) + 20:28 b MP: Messiah offers himself as a sin offering. (Is 53:10b) even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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In Context
27Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bond-servant,
29As they went out from Jericho [Fragrant, Moon], a great multitude followed him.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
Psalms 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, 2 nor give God a ransom for him. 1
Isaiah 53:8+ 53:8 a MP: Messiah is confined and oppressed without opposition. (Mark 14:53-65; Acts 8:27-35) After forcible arrest and + 53:8 a MP: Messiah is confined and judged. (John 18:12-13, 18:19-24) sentencing, he was taken away; 2 את and none of his generation protested 2 + 53:8 b MP: Messiah is killed / “cut off” as just punishment in place of the people’s transgressions. (Acts 8:33; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 1:18-19) his being cut off out of the land of the living + 53:8. (7-8) Quoted in Acts 8:32-33 2 for the rebellious breach of relationship of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves. 1
Matthew 26:28for + 26:28. MP: God establishes a new covenant with Israel and Judah, forgiving and removing sin allows them to know God intimately. (Jer 31:30, 31:33) + 26:28. MP: “Preserved you as a covenant for the people” - the restoring the land and distributing inheritance was anticipated at Messiah’s coming (see in Luke 24:21 and Acts 1:6). The national-political redemption is yet to come at the demise of the anti-Messiah and the establishment of Messiah’s eternal kingdom. (Rev 19:11-21 is describing Ezekiel ch 38-39 and Daniel ch 11). Judaism in the days of Yeshua expected political redemption with the Messiah (Luke 24:21; Acts 1:6). (Also referenced: Luke 24:21; Acts 1:6; 2 Cor 6:2; Rev 19:11-21+; Ezekiel ch 38-39 and Daniel ch 11). (Is 49:8b) + 26:28. MP: God establishes a new covenant with Israel and Judah, writing his Torah in their hearts. (See also Is 42:6, 56:6-7, 59:20-21, 61:8-9; Jer 32:36-42; Eze 16:59-63, all ch 37, 37:23-28). (Jer 31:30-32) this is my blood of the new covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties·, which is poured out for many for the remission of abstract sins ·miss the marks·.
Luke 22:27For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Is not it he who sits at the table? 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 →