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Mark 10:45 - 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.\u201d\n\xb7 John 13:12-17 - When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. \u201cDo you understand what I have done for you?\u201d he asked them. \u201cYou call me \u2018Teacher\u2019 and \u2018Lord,\u2019 and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another\u2019s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.\n\xb7 Judges 2:16 - Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders.\n\xb7 Judges 6:1-6 - The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.\n\xb7 Judges 6:11-12 - The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, \u201cThe Lord is with you, mighty warrior.\u201d\n\xb7 Judges 6:13 - \u201cPardon me, my lord,\u201d Gideon replied, \u201cbut if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, \u2018Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?\u2019 But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.\u201d\n\xb7 Judges 6:14 - The Lord turned to him and said, \u201cGo in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian\u2019s hand. Am I not sending you?\u201d\n\xb7 Judges 6:16 - The Lord answered, \u201cI will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.\u201d\n\xb7 Judges 7:16-18 - Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside. \u201cWatch me,\u201d he told them. \u201cFollow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, \u2018For the Lord and for Gideon.\u2019\u201d\n\xb7 Judges 6:12 - When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, \u201cThe Lord is with you, mighty warrior.\u201d\n\xb7 Judges 6:23-24 - But the Lord said to him, \u201cPeace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.\u201d So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.