John 13:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. ”

• John 13:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Ye also ought to wash ... - Some have understood this literally as instituting a religious rite which we ought to observe; but this was evidently not the design; because: There is no evidence...

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• John 13:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Meaning of the Act: the One Exception. The disciples recognise in Him their teacher and master. They should, therefore, follow His example by helping each other even in the lowliest services. T...

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• John 13:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  If then . Therefore if (App-118. a) L your . the. ought , &c. By Figure of speech Synecdoche (App-6) the act of feet-washing is put for the whole circle of offices of self-denying love. Li...

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• John 13:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  14. If then I, who am your Lord and Master. This is an argument from the greater to the less. Pride hinders us from maintaining that equality which ought to exist amongst us. But Christ, who...

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• John 13:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1678 CHRIST’S CONDESCENSION John 13:12-15 . So 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?...

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• John 13:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. Ye also ought to wash one another feet - That is, ye should be ready, after my example, to condesce...

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• John 13:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  If I then—have washed your feet, &c.— This was, even to a proverb, one of the lowest offices of menial attendants. See 1 Samuel 25:41 . Dr. Evans well observes, (Christian Temper, vol. i, p. 8...

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• John 13:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet (O ye servants), ye also (who are but...

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• John 13:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Last Supper 1-17. The Supper and the Feet-washing. This supper is identified by almost all modern authorities with the Last Supper, which took place on Thursday night at Jerusalem ( Matthew 26...

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• John 13:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye ought also to wash one another’s feet. — The argument is à fortiori. If He had so humbled Himself as to do the work of a servant for them, much more ought they to humble themselves for each ot...

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• John 13:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VI. THE FOOT-WASHING. "Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the...

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• John 13:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Master's Example John 13:12-20 Notwithstanding His great humility, Jesus expects to be regarded as Master and Lord; do we so call and treat Him? We must be as willing to obey Him as a soldi...

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• John 13:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  For a time our Lord now devoted Himself to His own, and in this connection we have the account of His washing the disciples' feet. The whole action was Eastern, and was the action of a slave: By what...

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• John 13:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's s on, to betray him; (3) Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was...

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• John 13:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If I then your Lord and Master ,.... Christ argues from these titles and characters, which his disciples rightly gave him, and from what he had done to them, though he stood in such a superior relat...

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• John 13:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. Ver. 14. Ye ought also to wash one another's feet ] What so great matter is it then to salute o...

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• John 13:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So after he had washed their feet , &c. After he had given them such a striking proof of his humility, condescension, and love, by performing to them the office of the meanest slave; he said, K...

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• John 13:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WASHING HIS DISCIPLES' FEET (vs.1-17) We are brought now to consider the last hours of the Lord Jesus before the cross. No longer does He minister to the world, but to His own disciples, from cha...

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• John 13:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience.       1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour w...

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• John 13:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I have by this my action taught you to love, and to be ready also to serve, one another, and not to think much to serve them even in the lowest and meanest offices by which you can do them good; for...

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• John 13:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Washing of the Feet: A Lesson in Humility ( John 13:1-17 ). Two major lessons come out from this passage. The first is that of the example that Jesus was giving of true humility in love and se...

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• John 13:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 13:1 . Before the feast, etc. —Jesus came to Jerusalem steadfastly resolved to finish the work given Him to do ( Luke 12:50 , etc.). These words are not to be...

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• John 13:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 13:1-17 The Washing of the Feet When we seek to wash a brother's feet we must be very careful about three things, which I give in the quaint way in which I have somewhere seen them expressed...

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• John 13:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 13:1 . Now before the feast of the passover, Or, just as it was about to begin, John 13:1 . When Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father...

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• John 13:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 13:1 . Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come. What now transpired was on the Tuesday, while at supper in the house of Simon. Judas was now rebuked before al...

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• John 13:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now before the feast of the Passover. A three-fold marvel I. A MARVELLOUS LOVE: that of Christ for His own. Marvellous in respect of 1. Its time. (1) Before the feast of the Passover, whe...

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• John 13:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION IV. THE FINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN WORD AND ACTION OF THE LOGOS INCARNATE , EXPRESSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO THE UTTERMOST AS LOVE . (Jn 13-21....

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• John 13:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The application of the washing of feet to the disciples:

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• John 13:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 8:13 ; 1 Corinthians 9:19-22 ; 1 Peter 4:1 ; 1 Peter 5:5 ; 2 Corinthians 10:1 ; 2 Corinthians 8:9 ; Acts 20:35 ; Galatians 5:13 ; Galatians 6:1 ; Galatians 6:2 ; Hebrews 12:2...

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• John 13:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Ye ought also to wash one another's feet — And why did they not? Why do we not read of any one apostle ever washing the feet of any other? Because they understood the Lord better. They knew he neve...

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