John 13:15 KJV

John · chapter 13 · verse 15

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.John 13:15 · King James Version

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John 13:15 in context

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.

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Commentary

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

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Key words (Strong's)

examplehypodeigmaa sign suggestive of anything, delineation of a thing, representation, figure, copy, an…G5262 →
givendidōmito give, to give something to someone, of one s own accord to give one something, to his…G1325 →
donepoieōto make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be…G4160 →

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