Mark 10:45

The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. This is the heart of the gospel and the model for all discipleship.

Cross-references · 15

• Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Phil 2:5–8Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
• 2 Cor 8:9For 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.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• John 13:14So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
• John 10:15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
• Heb 5:8Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
• Luke 22:26–27But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.
• Isa 53:10–12Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
• 1 Pet 1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
• 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Dan 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• Dan 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.
• 1 Tim 3:4–6An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

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