Mark 10:45

American Standard Version (1901)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γὰρ ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἦλθεν διακονηθῆναι, ἀλλὰ διακονῆσαι, καὶ δοῦναι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν.

Transliteration

And gar the Huios of the anthrōpou not ēlthen to be diakonēthēnai, alla to diakonēsai, and to dounai the psychēn of him lytron anti many.

Grammar Details

• *gar*: conjunction - for/because/indeed
• *Huios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of man/human
• *ēlthen*: aorist indicative, 3rd singular - came/has come
• *diakonēthēnai*: aorist infinitive, passive - to be served
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but rather
• *diakonēsai*: aorist infinitive, active - to serve
• *dounai*: aorist infinitive, active - to give
• *psychēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - soul/life
• *lytron*: accusative, neuter, singular - ransom/redemption price
• *anti*: preposition + genitive - instead of/in place of

Word Meanings

• *gar*: for/because/indeed (explanatory)
• *Huios tou anthrōpou*: Son of Man (Messianic title)
• *ēlthen*: came/has come
• *diakonēthēnai*: to be served/ministered to
• *diakonēsai*: to serve/minister to
• *dounai*: to give/grant/bestow
• *psychēn*: soul/life/self
• *lytron*: ransom/redemption price/payment for release
• *anti*: instead of/in place of/as a substitute for

Referenced Verses

• Matt 20:28 : 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.
• Phil 2:5-8 : 5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
• John 13:14 : 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• Heb 5:8 : 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
• Luke 22:26-27 : 26 But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 27 For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am in the midst of you as he that serveth.
• John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and [ made intercession for the transgressors.
• 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ:
• Dan 9:26 : 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• 1 Tim 3:4-6 : 4 one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.