Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. The mother, wan and pale with incessant vigils by the bedside of a sick child; — the fireman, maimed for life in bravely rescuing the inmates of a blazing house; — the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae; — Howard, dying of fever caught in dungeons where he was fulfilling his noble purpose of succouring the oppressed and remembering the forgotten; — the Moravian missionaries, who voluntarily incarcerated themselves in an African leper-house (from which regress into the healthy world was impossible, and escape only to be ejected through the gates of death), in order that they might preach the glad tidings to the lepers, — all these, and many other glorious instances of self-devotion, do but faintly shadow forth the love of Him who laid aside Divine glory, and humbled Himself to the death of the cross. Parallel Verses KJV: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. |
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