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 the divine glory to which He was about to return; yes, because He was conscious of all this, He left the disciples an example of the self-denial which is the necessary outcome of love. “Subsisting in the form of God, He thought it not a thing to be grasped at to be equal with God, but emptied Himself by taking upon Him the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:6). (Comp. for the thought of the gift of all things, Notes on 1 Corinthians 15:25; Ephesians 1:22.)
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John 13:3
3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;