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John 13:16 KJV
John · chapter 13 · verse 16
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.John 13:16 · King James Version
John 13:16 in context
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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- servantdoulosa slave, bondman, man of servile condition, a slave, metaph., one who gives himself up to…G1401 →
- Verilyamēnfirm, metaph. faithful, verily, amen, at the beginning of a discourseG281 →
- lordkyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
- sentapostolosa delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders, specifically applied to the twelve…G652 →
- sentpempōto send, to bid a thing to be carried to one, to send a thing into anotherG3992 →
- saylegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
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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