Matthew 20:27

Matthew 20:27 in other translations

What does Matthew 20:27 mean?

Matthew 20:27 in the original Greek

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Cross references for Matthew 20:27

• Luke 22:26

  But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

• Mark 9:33-35

  And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

• Matthew 18:4

  Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

• 2 Corinthians 4:5

  For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

• Romans 1:14

  I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

• Acts 20:34-35

  Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

  For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. …

• 2 Corinthians 11:23-27

  Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; …

• 2 Corinthians 12:15

  And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

• 2 Corinthians 11:5

  For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

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Context

• Matthew 20:26

  But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

• Matthew 20:27

  And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

• Matthew 20:28

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

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