27 For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.
Luke 22:27 Cross References - CAB
Matthew 20:28
28 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."
Luke 12:37
37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them recline to eat, and he will come and serve them.
Luke 17:7-9
7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come and recline to eat'?
8 But will he not say to him, 'Prepare something that I may dine, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink'?
9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things having been commanded? I think not.
John 13:5-16
5 Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to dry them with the towel with which He was girded.
6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"
7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you shall know after this."
8 Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me."
9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"
10 Jesus said to him, "He that is bathed need only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."
11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean."
12 So when He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, He reclined again, and said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say correctly, for so I am.
14 Therefore if I, your Lord and your Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I gave you an example, that just as I did to you, you also should do.
16 Most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than he who sent him.
2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet on account of you He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.