Matthew 20:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

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

Transliteration

Just as hōsper the Huios of the anthrōpou not ēlthen to be diakonēthēnai, but to diakonēsai, and to dounai the psychēn of him a lytron for anti many.

Grammar Details

• *hōsper*: conjunction - just as
• *Huios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of man
• *ēlthen*: aorist, 3rd singular - came
• *diakonēthēnai*: aorist infinitive, passive - to be served
• *diakonēsai*: aorist infinitive - to serve
• *dounai*: aorist infinitive - to give
• *psychēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life/soul
• *lytron*: accusative, neuter, singular - ransom
• *anti*: preposition - instead of/for
• *pollōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - many

Word Meanings

• *Huios tou anthrōpou*: Son of Man (Messianic title)
• *psychēn*: life/soul
• *lytron*: ransom/redemption price
• *anti*: instead of/in place of/for

Referenced Verses

• Luke 22:27 : 27 for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
• Heb 9:28 : 28 so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
• Phil 2:4-8 : 4 each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. 5 For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, thought `it' not robbery to be equal to God, 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
• John 13:4-9 : 4 doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself; 5 afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded. 6 He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou -- dost thou wash my feet?' 7 Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;' 8 Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;' 9 Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.' 10 Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;' 11 for he knew him who is delivering him up; because of this he said, `Ye are not all clean.' 12 When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you? 13 ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am; 14 if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do; 16 verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him; 17 if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
• John 10:15 : 15 according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
• Isa 53:8 : 8 By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out -- to remission of sins;
• Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
• Heb 5:8 : 8 through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,
• Rev 5:8-9 : 8 And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints, 9 and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
• Rom 5:15-19 : 15 But, not as the offence so also `is' the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many; 16 and not as through one who did sin `is' the free gift, for the judgment indeed `is' of one to condemnation, but the gift `is' of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,' 17 for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ. 18 So, then, as through one offence to all men `it is' to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' `it is' to all men to justification of life; 19 for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.
• Heb 2:10 : 10 For it was becoming to Him, because of whom `are' the all things, and through whom `are' the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
• Mark 14:24 : 24 and he said to them, `This is my blood of the new covenant, which for many is being poured out;
• Job 33:24 : 24 Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
• Ps 49:7 : 7 A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.
• Isa 53:5 : 5 And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace `is' on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.
• Isa 53:10-11 : 10 And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper. 11 Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. 25 And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader `is' seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. 26 And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end `is' with a flood, and till the end `is' war, determined `are' desolations.
• Matt 8:20 : 20 and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'
• John 11:50-52 : 50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.' 51 And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
• Rom 3:24-26 : 24 being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that `is' in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God -- 26 for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who `is' of the faith of Jesus.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
• Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,