Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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.” New Living Translation For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” English Standard Version even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Berean Standard Bible 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.” Berean Literal Bible even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many." King James Bible Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. New King James Version just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” New American Standard Bible 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.” NASB 1995 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” NASB 1977 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Legacy Standard Bible just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Amplified Bible 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 [paying the price to set them free from the penalty of sin].” Christian Standard Bible 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.” Holman Christian Standard Bible just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.” American Standard Version even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “Just as The Son of Man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give himself a ransom in the place of the many.” Contemporary English Version The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people. Douay-Rheims Bible Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many. English Revised Version even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. GOD'S WORD® Translation It's the same way with the Son of Man. He didn't come so that others could serve him. He came to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people." Good News Translation like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people." International Standard Version That's the way it is with the Son of Man. He did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people." Literal Standard Version 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.” Majority Standard Bible 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.” New American Bible Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” NET Bible 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." New Revised Standard Version just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.” New Heart English Bible even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Webster's Bible Translation Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Weymouth New Testament just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many." World English Bible even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Young's Literal Translation even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Mother's Request…27and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave— 28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” 29As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.… Cross References Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head." Matthew 20:27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave-- Matthew 26:28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many." Luke 22:27 For 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. John 13:13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am. 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. Treasury of Scripture Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. came. Luke 22:27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. John 13:4-17 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself… Philippians 2:4-8 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others… and to. Job 33:24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. Psalm 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: Isaiah 53:5,8,10,11 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed… for. Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Romans 5:15-19 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many… Jump to Previous Life Minister Ministered Ransom Redemption-Price Salvation Servant Servants Serve ServedJump to Next Life Minister Ministered Ransom Redemption-Price Salvation Servant Servants Serve ServedMatthew 20 1. Jesus, by the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, shows that God is debtor unto no man;17. foretells his passion; 20. by answering the mother of Zebedee's children, teaches his disciples to be humble; 29. and gives two blind men their sight. (28) Not to be ministered unto.--The words found a symbolic illustration when our Lord, a few days afterwards, washed the feet of the disciples who were still contending about their claims to greatness (John 13:3-4); and the manner in which St. John connects the act with our Lord's manifested consciousness of His supreme greatness, seems to show that the words which we find here were then present to his thoughts. The Son of Man seemed to the beloved disciple never to have shown Himself so truly king like and divine as when engaged in that menial act. But that act, we must remember, was only an illustration; and the words found their true meaning in His whole life, in His poverty and humiliation, in the obedience of childhood, in service rendered, naturally or super-naturally, to the bodies or the souls of others. To give his life a ransom for many.--The word rightly rendered "ransom," is primarily "a price made for deliverance," and in this sense it is found in the Greek version of the Old Testament for "the ransom" which is accepted instead of a man's life in Exodus 21:30, for the "price of redemption" accepted as an equivalent for an unexpired term of service in Leviticus 25:50, for riches as the "ransom of a man's life" in Proverbs 13:8. No shade of doubt accordingly rests on the meaning of the word. Those who heard could attach no other meaning to it than that He who spake them was about to offer up His life that others might be delivered. Seldom, perhaps, has a truth of such profound import been spoken, as it were, so incidentally. It is as if the words had been drawn from Him by the contrast between the disputes of the disciples and the work which had occupied His own thoughts as He walked on in silent solitude in advance of them. It is the first distinct utterance, we may note, of the plan and method of His work. He had spoken before of "saving" the lost (Matthew 18:11): now He declares that the work of "salvation" was to be also one of "redemption." It could only be accomplished by the payment of a price, and that price was His own life. The language of the Epistles as to the "redemption that is in Christ Jesus," our being "bought with a price" (Romans 3:24; 1Corinthians 6:20), "redeemed by His precious blood" (1Peter 1:19), the language of all Christendom in speaking of the Christ as our Redeemer, are the natural developments of that one pregnant word. The extent of the redemptive work, "for many," is here indefinite rather than universal, but "the ransom for all" of 1Timothy 2:6 shows in what sense it was received by those whom the Spirit of God was guiding into all truth. Even the preposition in, "for many" has a more distinct import than is given in the English version. It was, strictly speaking, a "ransom" instead of, in the place of, (???? not ????) "many." Without stating a theory of the atonement, it implied that our Lord's death was, in some way, representative and vicarious; and the same thought is expressed by St. Paul's choice of the compound substantive ??????????, when, using a different preposition, he speaks of it as a ransom for (????, i.e., on behalf of) all men (1Timothy 2:6). . . . Verse 28. - Even as. Christ adduces his own example as a pattern of profound humility. To minister. By his incarnation Christ assumed the lowliest life of man. He took upon himself the form of a servant, and was ever active in ministering to others' wants, going about doing good, healing the sick, cleansing lepers, casting out demons; always accessible, sympathetic, merciful; never weary of teaching, however fatigued in body; a servant to the race which he came to save. A ransom for many; λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν: instead of many. The crowning example of his humility is that he gave his life as a ransom for the souls of men. This is the atonement, the sacrificial act, which (as the Mosaic sacrifices did in a partial and temporary manner) reconciled God and man. Whatever may be the way in which this atonement acts on the Divine mind, the expression here shows that it was vicarious and propitiatory, energizing, not by example, as an effort of superhuman self-denial, courage, and patience, but by an inherent power, as mysterious as it is efficacious. We can only say that, being the act of one who is God, its effects must necessarily be incomprehensible and infinite. The difficulties that beset this doctrine are increased by the fact that Jesus himself says little about the atoning nature of his sufferings and death - a topic which would not at this time have been properly received by friends or enemies, the former refusing to credit his approaching death, the latter being totally unable to conceive how such death could supersede Jewish sacrifices and reconcile the whole world to God (Sadler). Christ certainly died for all, as St. Paul says, "He gave himself a ransom for all (ἀντίλυτρον ὑπὲρ πάντων)" (1 Timothy 2:6), but all do not accept the offered salvation; hence arise the two expressions, "all" and "many," referring to the same object; "not," as an old Father says, "that salvation is limited, but men's efforts to obtain it are limited." The same expression was used by our Lord at the Last Supper, when he said, "This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28). A comparison of the passages in which the death of Christ is connected with the salvation of men would show a similar interchange of terms, depending on the view which the writer is taking of the doctrine, whether an objective one or a subjective. In the former case we may cite Romans 5:15; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 John 2:2; in the latter, Romans 3:25, 26; Ephesians 5:2.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek just asὥσπερ (hōsper) Adverb Strong's 5618: Just as, as, even as. From hos and per; just as, i.e. Exactly like. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Son Υἱὸς (Huios) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. of Man ἀνθρώπου (anthrōpou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being. did not come ἦλθεν (ēlthen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2064: To come, go. to be served, διακονηθῆναι (diakonēthēnai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Passive Strong's 1247: From diakonos; to be an attendant, i.e. Wait upon (figuratively) teacher; technically, to act as a Christian deacon. but ἀλλὰ (alla) Conjunction Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. to serve, διακονῆσαι (diakonēsai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 1247: From diakonos; to be an attendant, i.e. Wait upon (figuratively) teacher; technically, to act as a Christian deacon. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. to give δοῦναι (dounai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give. His αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. life ψυχὴν (psychēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely. [as] a ransom λύτρον (lytron) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 3083: From luo; something to loosen with, i.e. A redemption price. for ἀντὶ (anti) Preposition Strong's 473: A primary particle; opposite, i.e. Instead or because of. many.” πολλῶν (pollōn) Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 4183: Much, many; often. Links Matthew 20:28 NIVMatthew 20:28 NLT Matthew 20:28 ESV Matthew 20:28 NASB Matthew 20:28 KJV Matthew 20:28 BibleApps.com Matthew 20:28 Biblia Paralela Matthew 20:28 Chinese Bible Matthew 20:28 French Bible Matthew 20:28 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of Man came (Matt. Mat Mt) |
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