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.”

A ‘ransom’ is the price paid for delivering someone or some thing from bondage.

Redemption is costly.  The price paid for our salvation is Christ’s own death (Rom 3:24f; Eph 1:7).

But many of the ancient theologians (such as Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory the Great, and Peter Lombard) pushed this idea by enquiring as to whom the ransom was paid.…