Devine Scripture

Matthew 20:27

Matthew chapter 20 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

Context

v.26Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

v.27This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:23

    Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:19

    For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:5

    For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • Mark 9:33

    And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house he asked them, What were ye reasoning on the way?

  • Matthew 18:4

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

  • Romans 1:14

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