Matthew 20:28

First Nations Version

In the same way, the True Human Being did not come to be served by others, but to offer his life in the place of many lives, to set them free.” The road to Village of Peace (Jerusalem) took them through Moon Village (Jericho).

Cross References

Hebrews 9:28

So the Chosen One also died once when he took on himself the bad hearts and broken ways of many people. He will appear a second time, not to die for broken ways but to set free and make whole all who keep their eyes wide open as they wait for him.

Luke 22:27

“Who is the greater one?” he asked. “The one who is being served, or the one who serves?” They all hung their heads and would not look him in the eye. “Is it not the one being served?” he responded. “But here I am serving you.” The voice of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) became full of compassion and love. His followers lifted their heads up and looked at their Wisdomkeeper.

Titus 2:14

He paid the highest price to set us free from all our wrongdoings and purify for himself a people whose hearts burn with fire to do good deeds.

1 Peter 3:18

The Chosen One died once for the broken ways of all people. The one who always does right suffered for those who do wrong to make a way for us to come to the Great Spirit. In his weak human body he was put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

1 Timothy 2:6

He gave up his own life to set all people free, so that, when the time was right, this truth would be made clear to all humankind.

Revelation 1:5

I also greet you from Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. He is the honorable witness, the first to rise from among the dead, and the Grand Chief over all who rule on earth. All honor belongs to the one who loves us, the one who, by giving up his own lifeblood, set us free from our bad hearts and broken ways.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the loving kindness of our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. Even though he had great treasures, he became poor for your sake, that through his poverty you might share in his great treasures.

Hebrews 5:8

Even though he was Creator’s Son, he still had to learn, through suffering, what it means to stay true to the ways of the Great Spirit.

1 Peter 2:24

He took on himself our broken ways when he hung on a tree-pole—the cross. He did this so we could die to our broken ways and come alive to his right ways. By his wounds we have been made whole.

Ephesians 1:7

By paying the highest price, offering his own lifeblood, the Chosen One released us from a great captivity caused by our bad hearts and broken ways. He poured out all of this overflowing kindness on us, showing how wise and understanding he is.

Mark 14:24

“This is my lifeblood of the peace treaty, poured out on behalf of many people,” he said to them.

Matthew 26:28

for this is my lifeblood of the new peace treaty, poured out to release many people from their broken ways.

Ephesians 5:2

Walk the road of love, following the path of the Chosen One, who loved us and offered up his life to the Great Spirit like the smoke of burning sage.

Galatians 3:13

The Chosen One paid a great price to set us free from the law’s demand about doing by taking on himself the law’s curse. As it is written in our Sacred Teachings, “Anyone who has been hanged upon a tree-pole is under a curse.”

Romans 4:25

We are the ones who through our wrongdoings betrayed and killed him, but his rising from the dead proves we have good standing with the Great Spirit.

1 John 2:2

He paid a great price to set us free from our bad hearts and broken ways, not only for us but for all people.

Hebrews 2:10

The Great Spirit is the maker and upholder of all things. So it was only right that he would be the one to lift his children back up to the honored place for which he created them. The one who would blaze the trail before them had to suffer, so he would be fully prepared to set them free and make them whole.

Matthew 8:20

He answered the man, “The foxes live in their holes, the winged ones who fly above us live in their nests, but the True Human Being has no place to lay his head.”

Matthew 20:27

And the ones who want to be first must become the household slave of all.

Mark 10:45

In the same way, the True Human Being did not come to be served by others but to offer his life in the place of many lives, to set them free.”