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Wesley's New Testament

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambition;   Example;   Fellowship;   Jesus, the Christ;   Life;   Minister, Christian;   Redemption;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Sacrifice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Mark, gospel of;   Messiah;   Servant of the lord;   Son of man;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Biblical Theology;   Deacon, Deaconess;   Death of Christ;   Disciple, Discipleship;   Forgiveness;   Gospel;   Guilt;   Humility;   Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of;   Lamb, Lamb of God;   Leadership;   Person, Personhood;   Redeem, Redemption;   Servant, Service;   Slave, Slavery;   Suffering;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Conflagration;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Redemption;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Christ, Christology;   Clean, Cleanness;   Cross, Crucifixion;   Disciples;   Immutability of God;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Life;   Lord;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Offices in the New Testament;   Salvation;   Slave/servant;   Son of Man;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bartimaeus;   Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Messiah;   Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anger;   Announcements of Death;   Atonement;   Atonement (2);   Call, Calling;   Character;   Communion (2);   Cosmopolitanism;   Covenant;   Day of Atonement ;   Death of Christ;   Doctrines;   Dominion (2);   Endurance;   Ethics (2);   Fact and Theory;   Fall (2);   Fellowship (2);   Force;   Foresight;   Forsaking All;   Gift;   Graciousness;   Greatness;   Guilt (2);   Humanity of Christ;   Humility;   Ideas (Leading);   Israel, Israelite;   Kindness (2);   Labour (2);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Love;   Love (2);   Mark, Gospel According to;   Mediation Mediator;   Mediator;   Merit;   Messiah;   Metaphor;   Minister, Ministration;   Mission;   Names and Titles of Christ;   Obedience (2);   Paradox;   Popularity;   Preaching Christ;   Promise (2);   Prophet;   Propitiation (2);   Quotations (2);   Ransom;   Ransom (2);   Redemption;   Redemption (2);   Religious Experience;   Salvation;   Sin (2);   Son of Man;   Sorrow, Man of Sorrows;   Trinity (2);   Vicarious Sacrifice;   Yoke;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ransom;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bartim us;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mediator;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - For;   Forgiveness;   James;   Life;   Mark, the Gospel According to;   Mediation;   Ransom;   Salvation;   Son of Man, the;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 15;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For even the Son of Man
King James Version (1611)
For euen the Sonne of man came not to bee ministred vnto, but to minister, and to giue his life a ransome for many.
King James Version
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
English Standard Version
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
New American Standard Bible
"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."
New Century Version
In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people."
Amplified Bible
"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."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Legacy Standard Bible
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Berean Standard Bible
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."
Contemporary English Version
The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve — and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Darby Translation
For also the Son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and give his life a ransom for many.
Easy-to-Read Version
Follow my example: Even the Son of Man did not come for people to serve him. He came to serve others and to give his life to save many people."
Geneva Bible (1587)
For euen the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the raunsome of many.
George Lamsa Translation
For also the Son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life as a salvation for the sake of many.
Good News Translation
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."
Lexham English Bible
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."
Literal Translation
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.
American Standard Version
For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Bible in Basic English
For truly 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.
Hebrew Names Version
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
International Standard Version
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 people."Matthew 20:28; John 13:14; Philippians 2:7; 1 Timothy 2:6; Titus 2:14;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life the ransom for many.
Murdock Translation
And also the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the sonne of man also came not to be ministred vnto: but to minister, & to geue his lyfe, a raunsome for many.
English Revised Version
For verily the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
World English Bible
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Weymouth's New Testament
For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi mannus sone cam not, that it schulde be mynystrid to hym, but that he schulde mynystre, and yyue his lijf ayenbiyng for manye.
Update Bible Version
For the Son of man also didn't come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Webster's Bible Translation
For even the son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
New English Translation
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."
New King James Version
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
New Living Translation
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many."
New Life Bible
For the Son of Man did not come to be cared for. He came to care for others. He came to give His life so that many could be bought by His blood and be made free from sin."
New Revised Standard
For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, even the Son of Man, came not to be ministered unto, but minister, - and to give his life, a ransom instead of many.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.
Revised Standard Version
For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For eve the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto: but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.
Young's Literal Translation
for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the sonne of man also came not to be serued, but to do seruyce, and to geue his life to a redempcion for many.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for the son of man himself is not come to receive the services of men, but to do them service, and to lay down his life a ransom for many.
Simplified Cowboy Version
For even the Greatest Top Hand did not come down here to ride all high and mighty, but he came to serve others, and to offer his life as a ransom for everyone else."

Contextual Overview

32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went before them. And they were amazed, and as they followed, they were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he told them what things should befall him: 33 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes: and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles. 34 And they will mock him and scourge him and spit upon him and kill him. And the third day he will rise again. 35 And James and John the sons of Zebedee come to him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us what we shall ask. 36 And he said to them, What would ye that I should do for you? 37 They said to him, Grant us to sit one on thy right-hand, and one on thy left-hand in thy glory. 38 But Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? 39 And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with. 40 But to sit on my right-hand and on my left, is not mine to give, but to them for whom it is prepared. 41 And the ten hearing it, were much displeased with James and John.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: Matthew 20:28, Luke 22:26, Luke 22:27, John 13:14, Philippians 2:5-8, Hebrews 5:8

and to: Isaiah 53:10-12, Daniel 9:24, Daniel 9:26, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13, 1 Timothy 3:4-6, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 1:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:12 - a ransom Matthew 16:13 - I the Matthew 20:26 - it Mark 14:24 - which Galatians 1:4 - gave Philippians 2:7 - the form 1 Timothy 2:6 - gave 1 Peter 4:10 - minister

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For even the son of man,.... That is, Christ himself; a name by which he frequently goes both in the Old and New Testament to the arguments before produced, Christ adds his own example, to teach his disciples humility and lowliness of mind and to check their ambitious views and desires:

came not to be ministered unto: not but that he was ministered unto even by the angels of God; who ministered to him in the wilderness, after he had been tempted by Satan; and he was also ministered unto by some women out of their substance; but these show the low estate he was in to stand in need of such ministrations: here the sense is that he did not appear as an earthly prince, with a fine equipage, a large retinue and attendance,

but to minister; to be a servant, as he is in his mediatorial office and capacity: he was sent, and came as the servant of the Lord; and he ministered, in his prophetic office, the Gospel unto men; and went about in the form of a servant, doing good, ministering medicine both to the souls end bodies of men: but the great work he came about, was the work of man's redemption; which he willingly and cheerfully undertook, diligently and faithfully prosecuted, and has completely finished; to which respect is had in the next clause:

and to give his life a ransom for many; even for all the elect of God, to redeem them from sin, Satan, and the law; and secure them from the wrath of God, and eternal death; and this he has done, by laying down his life as the ransom price for them;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 20:20-28.

Mark 10:35

And James and John ...came unto him - They did this through the instrumentality of their mother. They did not come in “person,” but they got their mother to make the request for them. Compare the notes at Matthew 20:20.


 
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