⁴⁵ For even ^(A)the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and ^(B)to give His life a ransom for many.”

^28 (A)just as the ^(B)Son of Man did not come to be served, ^(C)but to serve, and ^(D)to give His life a ransom ^(E)for many.”

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

^5 (A)Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, ^(B)being in the form of God, did not consider it ^[a]robbery to be equal with God, ^7 (C)but ^[b]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form ^(D)of a bondservant, and ^(E)coming in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and ^(F)became ^(G)obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^(A)that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become ^(B)rich.

^14 (A)who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed ^(B)and purify for Himself ^(C)His own special people, zealous for good works.

^14 (A)If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, ^(B)you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

^15 (A)As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; ^(B)and I lay down My life for the sheep.

^26 (A)But not so among you; on the contrary, ^(B)he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. ^27 (C)For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet ^(D)I am among you as the One who serves.