Matthew 20:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ 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 Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Just as the Son of Man came not to be waited on but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many [the price paid to set them free].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Common English Bible

²⁸ just as the Human One didn’t come to be served but rather to serve and to give his life to liberate many people.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ even as the Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption for many."

Matthew 20:28 Cross References

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Luke 22:27

For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself a ransom for all —this was attested at the right time.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

Hebrews 5:8

Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered,

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

Romans 4:25

who was handed over for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

1 John 2:2

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Hebrews 2:10

It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

Isaiah 53:8

By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.

Psalm 49:7

Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life; there is no price one can give to God for it.

Matthew 8:20

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Job 33:24

and he is gracious to that person and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit; I have found a ransom;

Matthew 20:27

and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave,

Mark 10:45

For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

Numbers 7:15

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;