Matthew 20:28

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

Cross-references · 32

• Luke 22:27For 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.
• Heb 9:28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
• Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1 Tim 2:6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• Phil 2:4–8Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
• 2 Cor 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
• 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Rev 1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• 1 Pet 1:18–19Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• Rev 5:8–9And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
• Eph 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
• John 13:4–17He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
• Mark 14:24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
• Heb 5:8Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
• Matt 26:28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
• Rom 5:15–19But 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.
• Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Rom 4:25Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
• 1 Jn 2:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
• Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• Isa 53:5But 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.
• Isa 53:10–11Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• John 11:50–52Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
• Ps 49:7None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• Isa 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
• Matt 8:20And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
• Rom 3:24–26Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
• Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

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