Mark 10:45 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Christian Faith 2.92 (397)

It is profitable to me to know that for my sake Christ bore my infirmities, submitted to the affections of my body, that for me and for all he was made sin and a curse, that for me and in me was he humbled and made subject, that for me he is the lamb, the vine, the rock, the servant, the Son of a handmaid, knowing not the day of judgment, for my sake ignorant of the day and the hour.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

Let us mark in this passage, the ignorance of our Lord's disciples . We find James and John petitioning for the first places in the kingdom of glory. We find them confidently declaring their ability to drink of their Master's cup and be baptized with their Master's baptism. In spite of all the plain warnings of our Lord, they clung obstinately to the belief that Christ's kingdom on earth was immediately going to appear. Notwithstanding their many shortcomings in Christ's service, they had no misgivings as to their power to endure any thing which might come upon them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Served of all came to be the Servant of all; and His last act was the grandest Service ever beheld by the universe of God--"HE GAVE HIS LIFE A RANSOM FOR MANY!", &c. "Many" is here to be taken, not in contrast with few or with all, but in opposition to one--the one Son of man for the many sinners.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	Even	G2532 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
υἱὸς	huios	Son	G5207 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
ἀνθρώπου	anthrōpou	of Man	G444 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἦλθεν	ēlthen	came	G2064 →
διακονηθῆναι	diakonēthēnai	to be served	G1247 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
διακονῆσαι	diakonēsai	to serve	G1247 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δοῦναι	dounai	to give	G1325 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ψυχὴν	psuchēn	life	G5590 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
λύτρον	lutron	[as] a ransom	G3083 →
ἀντὶ	anti	for	G473 →
πολλῶν.¶	pollōn	many.	G4183 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 8:9
For 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.
leads to
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Philippians 2:6–8
  Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
- Matthew 20:28
  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.”
- Romans 5:8
  But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Through
Titus 2:14
He 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.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:14
  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 1 Peter 2:9
  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Through
Matthew 20:28
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.”
leads to
- Luke 22:27
  For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.