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John 13:13-17 KJV
John · chapter 13 · verses 13–17
13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. 17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.John 13:13-17 · King James Version
John 13:13-17 in context
11For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
12So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
18I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
19Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 Peter 5:5
- Acts 20:35
- Romans 12:16
- Galatians 5:13
- Luke 22:26-27
- Mark 10:43-45
- 1 Peter 4:1
- Hebrews 5:8-9
- 1 John 2:6
- Matthew 11:29
- John 15:20
- Luke 6:40
Key words (Strong's)
- another'sallēlōnone another, reciprocally, mutuallyG240 →
- examplehypodeigmaa sign suggestive of anything, delineation of a thing, representation, figure, copy, an…G5262 →
- servantdoulosa slave, bondman, man of servile condition, a slave, metaph., one who gives himself up to…G1401 →
- Masterdidaskalosa teacher, in the NT one who teaches concerning the things of God, and the duties of man…G1320 →
- washedniptōto wash, to wash one's selfG3538 →
- Verilyamēnfirm, metaph. faithful, verily, amen, at the beginning of a discourseG281 →
- oughtopheilōto owe, to owe money, be in debt for, that which is due, the debt, metaph. the goodwill…G3784 →
- givendidōmito give, to give something to someone, of one s own accord to give one something, to his…G1325 →
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It has generally been taken for granted by commentators that Christ's washing his disciples' feet, and the discourse that followed it, were the same night in which he was betrayed, and at the same sitting wherein he ate the passover and instituted the Lord's supper;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-17