'Servant' in the Bible

His servant Israel He has helped, Remembering His compassion--

And has raised up a mighty Deliverer for us In the house of David His servant--

"Now, O Sovereign Lord, Thou dost send Thy servant away in peace, in fulfilment of Thy word,

Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

and the Captain, hearing about Jesus, sent to Him some of the Jewish Elders, begging Him to come and restore his servant to health.

And the friends who had been sent, on returning to the house, found the servant in perfect health.

Blessed is that servant whom his Master when He comes shall find so doing.

But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

At dinner-time he sent his servant to announce to those who had been invited, "'Come, for things are now ready.'

"So the servant came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. "'Go out quickly,' he said, 'into the streets of the city--the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.'

"Soon the servant reported the result, saying, "'Sir, what you ordered is done, and there is room still.'

"No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."

But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?

"'Well done, good servant,' he replied; 'because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.'

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:

At vintage-time he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.

Then he sent a second servant; and him too they beat and ill treated and sent away empty-handed.

And one of them struck a blow at the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.