“ If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. ”
The servant is not ... - This was universally true, and this they were to remember always, that they were to manifest the same spirit that he did, and that they were to expect the same treatment...
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...
17. If you know these things. He declares that they are happy, if they know and do these things; for knowledge is not entitled to be called true, unless it produce such an effec...
DISCOURSE: 1679 PRACTICAL RELIGION ENFORCED John 13:17 . If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them . SO little was the virtue of humility understood among the heathen, that neither th...
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. If ye know these things, happy, etc. - True happiness consists in the knowledge of God, and in obedience to him. A man is not happy because he kno...
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. 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...
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...
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. — The first clause of this verse assumes their knowledge of the things which He had been teaching them ( John 13:13-17 ). They were, indeed, old...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MISSIONARY SERVICE ‘If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.’ John 13:17 I. There is a test by which the reality of discipleship is proved. II. It forms the substance of the...
If ye know these things ,.... The duties they owed to him, and one another; those kind offices of love and respect to each other; the humility, condescension, and brotherly love, which ought to be i...
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. Ver. 17. If ye know these things, &c. ] Knowledge without practice is but as rain in the middle region; or as a horn in the unicorn's head...
Verily, the servant is not greater than his lord And therefore ought not to think much either of doing or suffering the same things. If ye know these things Therefore, knowing your duty in this p...
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...
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience. 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour w...
He tells them, that it is not the bare comprehension of these things in their notion that would do them any good, unless they brought their knowledge into practice; for to him that knoweth to do goo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
The application of the washing of feet to the disciples:
2 Corinthians 5:14 ; 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; Exodus 40:16 ; Ezekiel 36:27 ; Galatians 5:6 ; Genesis 6:22 ; Hebrews 11:7 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; James 1:25 ; James 2:20-24 ; James 4:17 ; John 15:14...