Matthew 20:28
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 amongst you shall be your bondservant,
29As they went out from Jericho, 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, nor give God a ransom for him.
Isaiah 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgement. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Matthew 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
Luke 22:27For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am amongst 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 →