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John 13:16
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14 aIf I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, byou also ought to wash one another’s feet.  
15 For aI have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.  
16 aMost assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.  
17 aIf you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.  

Jesus Identifies His Betrayer

18 “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the aScripture may be fulfilled, b‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 13:16-17

The servant is not greater than his lord, etc.—an oft-repeated saying (Matthew 10:24, etc.).

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them—a hint that even among real Christians the doing of such things would come lamentably short of the knowing.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 13:16:

Matthew 10:24

 

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