John 13:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; ”

• John 13:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Jesus knowing ... - With the full understanding of his dignity and elevation of character, he yet condescended to wash their feet. The evangelist introduces his washing their feet by saying that...

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• John 13:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his (b) hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; (b) Into his power.

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• John 13:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 13. The Revelation to the Disciples. John 13:1-11 . The Agape and the Foot Washing. According to Jn. the events of the Passion are the voluntary sacrifice of Love. He loved His own to the en...

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• John 13:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  had given . &c. These statements of His divine origin, authority, and coming glory, are made so as to enhance the amazing condescension of the service to which He humbled Himself to do the offic...

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• John 13:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  3. Jesus, knoweth that the Father had given all things into his hands. I am of opinion that this was added for the purpose of informing us whence Christ obtained such a well-regulated compos...

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• John 13:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; Knowing that the Father had given, etc. - Our Lord, seeing himself almost at the end...

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• John 13:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Jesus, knowing, &c.— This circumstance is premised, to set the humility of Christ in the most conspicuous light: and what could have contributed more to this purpose, than to consider that Jesu...

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• John 13:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that...

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• John 13:3 - 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 13:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands... — This explains the act of humility which follows. With the full consciousness of His supreme power and divine origin, and’ of t...

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• John 13:3 - 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 13:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jesus Glorifies Humble Service John 13:1-11 In the Temple the laver preceded the brazen altar. It was kept filled with pure water for the constant washing of the priests; Exodus 30:18-21 ; Le...

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• John 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus knowing that the Father ,.... These words express the sense Christ had of his own greatness and dignity as Mediator: had given all things into his hands ; all the persons of the elect, all b...

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• John 13:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; Ver. 3. Jesus knowing, &c. ] This is prefaced to the washing of his disciple...

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• John 13:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God , &c. That is, although he was conscious of his own greatness, as being invested with the governm...

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• John 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; Our translating the Greek participle eidwv, knowing, (which properly signifies having known), createth a difficulty, viz. How Christ's knowledge of this, that the Father had given all thin...

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• John 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - 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 13:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jesus Washing the Disciples' Feet. John 13:1-20 At the Passover meal:

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• John 13:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:27 ; Acts 2:36 ; Ephesians 1:21 ; Ephesians 1:22 ; Hebrews 1:2 ; Hebrews 2:8 ; Hebrews 2:9 ; John 1:18 ; John 13:1 ; John 16:27 ; John 16:28 ; John 17:11-13 ; John 17:2...

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• John 13:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Jesus knowing — Though conscious of his own greatness, thus humbled himself.

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