Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.
New American Standard Bible
King James 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.
Holman Bible
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."
A Conservative Version
Just as the Son of man came not 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.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Even so, the Son of man did not come to be served [by others] but to be the servant [of others], and to sacrifice His life as a ransom price to purchase many people [i.e., back from Satan]."
Anderson New Testament
even as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Bible in Basic English
Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
Common New Testament
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."
Daniel Mace New Testament
as the son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for all.
Darby Translation
as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Godbey New Testament
as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give His soul a ransom for many.
Goodspeed New Testament
just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."
John Wesley New Testament
but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
King James 2000
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Lexham Expanded 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."
Modern King James verseion
even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even as the son of man came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister: and to give his life for the redemption of many."
Moffatt New Testament
just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Montgomery New Testament
"just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, 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 Heart 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."
Noyes New Testament
even as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Sawyer New Testament
as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
The Emphasized Bible
Just as, the Son of Man, came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom instead of many.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Even as the Son of man came not to be waited upon, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Webster
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."
Williams New Testament
just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."
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."
Worrell New Testament
even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give His soul a ransom for many."
Worsley New Testament
as the Son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.
Youngs 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.'
Themes
Atonement » Made by jesus » Redemption by
Christ » Appearing to his disciples other references to cures by » Mission of
The death of Christ » Acceptable, as a sacrifice to God
Christ, our example » Conformity to, required in » Ministering to others
Humility » They who have » Are greatest in Christ's kingdom
Humility of Christ » Exhibited in his » Becoming a servant
Servants » Christ condescended to the office of
religious Work » Helpful various forms of, to which men are called » Christ's example of
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 20:28
Prayers for Matthew 20:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request By The Mother Of James And John
27 And whoever would be first among you, let him be your servant: 28 As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many. 29 And they going out from Jericho, a great crowd followed him.
Cross References
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.
1 Timothy 2:6
Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time.
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.
Luke 22:27
For which the greater, he reclining, or he serving? is not he reclining and I am in the midst of you as he serving.
John 10:15
As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
1 Peter 1:18-19
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the chief of the kings of the earth. To him having loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood,
Job 33:24
And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation.
Psalm 49:7
A man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom:
Isaiah 53:5
And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us.
Isaiah 53:8
From constraint and from judgment was he taken, and his generation who shall comprehend? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he struck for them.
Isaiah 53:10-11
And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
Daniel 9:24-26
Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.
Matthew 8:20
And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head.
Mark 14:24
And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the new covenant, being poured out for many.
John 11:50-52
Neither turn ye in your thoughts that it is profitable to us, that one man die for the people, and the nation perish not.
John 13:4-17
He arises from supper, and lays down the garments; and having taken a linen cloth, he girded himself.
Romans 3:24-26
Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.
Romans 5:15-19
But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 5:2
And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.
Philippians 2:4-8
Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.
Hebrews 2:10
For it became him, for whom all things, and by whom all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the chief of their salvation by sufferings.
Hebrews 5:8
Although being a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;
1 Peter 2:24
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:
1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Revelation 5:8-9
And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twentyfour elders fell before the Lamb, having each harps, and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the holy.