Sentences with phrase «life as a ransom for»

He laid down his life as ransom for his sheep.

While the Old Testament stories are driven by fear and a desire for self - preservation (even the call to seek the welfare of Babylon was ultimately selfinterested), Jesus said that he came «not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many» (Mark 10:45).

Jesus came to give up His life as a ransom for many.

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

In the view of the author of Matthew, Jesus certainly would have passed such a test: «The Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

10:45 «The Son of Man did not come in order to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

In all of Mark's Gospel, this is the only time Jesus says a word about his purpose: «For the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

«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.»

Jesus said he came to «give his life as a ransom for many» at Matthew 20:28.

And if the mission of tile Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»

To this is added (Mk 10:45; Mt 20:28), «For the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many»» (Mark 10: 42 - 45).

«The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many» (Matthew 20:28).

Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

Why does he omit the statement in Mark 10.45, «the Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom for many»?

And whoever desires to be first among you must be your bondservant, even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many» (Mat 20:25 - 28).

For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Melbourne not only confessed Jesus of Nazareth as the center of the royal reign of God, but it also stressed that as Christ's Kingdom, the royal reign of God begins on earth as the kingdom of the crucified, which places his disciples with him under the cross.18 He did not come to be served, but «to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.

In the midst of the jealous rivalry of the apostles, He reveals to them that He has come «not to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many» (Mark 10:45).

Learning about giving rather than receiving is a valuable part of Christmas, after all Jesus came to give his life as a ransom for many.

45 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.»

Not exact matches

This feeling for the deep significance of the suffering and death of Christ is constantly present in Mark, as the quotations just above will have indicated (as well as the familiar «to give his life a ransom for many» [See F. C. Grant, The Earliest Gospel (New York and Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1943), pp. 78ff], and is only less important in Matthew and Luke - Acts.

Giving our lives «as a ransom for many involves making ourselves available to others in response to the One who laid down his life for us.

By an arrangement of the Creator, Jesus was permitted to offer his perfect human life as a sacrifice, a ransom, to repurchase a further opportunity at life for sinful mankind.

It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant... just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.»

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Especially cruel hackers know that lives are on the line when they hold a hospital's computer systems hostage, as they did in the May 12 attack dubbed WannaCry, which locked down many overseas hospitals with the demand for a ransom.

First - time director / screenwriter Antonio Negret details the frightening trend of kidnapping in Columbia with this tense tale of a young photographer who is abducted and held for ransom as his desperate parents scramble to raise the money that could save their child's life.

In this action - thriller, Mel Gibson stars as Tom Mullen, a wealthy executive whose charmed life is suddenly shattered when his young son is abducted and held for ransom by a gang of ruthless...

For instance, Sisk (2008) researched the impact of the teaching of spiritual intelligence to gifted secondary students, who studied the lives of spiritual pathfinders, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Hildegarde de Bingen, and grappled with moral dilemmas, such as conflict in Iraq and issues of the use of torture, kidnapping, and ransom to develop students» decision - making abilities and help them become aware of their «knowing.»

One account of these events goes as follows: «The Magistrate from Corozal, Blake, who had commercial dealings with the rebellious Maya, pleaded for the lives of the prisoners, offering 2,500 pesos as ransom to Venancio Puc.