OLBGrk; JOHN CHAPTER 13 1 Thessalonians 13:1-17 Jesus washes his disciples feet; and exhorteth them to follow his example of humility and charity. 1 Thessalonians 13:18-30 He foretells the treachery of Judas, and points him out to John by a token. 1 Thessalonians 13:31-35 He speaketh of his glorification as near at hand, and commandeth his disciples to love one another. 1 Thessalonians 13:36-38 He forewarns Peter that he shall thrice deny him. That this was the fourth passover after that he entered upon his public ministry is out of doubt, and the last he ever celebrated. We have taken notice of this evangelist's mention of the other three: but how long what follows was before the passover, which is here expressed by before the feast, is a great question: some will have it the day, others immediately before, as pro (the very same particle) is used. Luke 11:38, before dinner, and Luke 22:15, before I suffer. The resolution of it much depends upon another question as difficult, viz. What supper it is which is mentioned? 1 Thessalonians 13:2. Those who would be satisfied in these cases, may find a collection of what is said by most valuable interpreters in Mr. Pool's Synopsis Criticorum, upon Matthew 26:1-75. It is our happiness, that though some such knots occur in holy writ, yet they are about things in which our salvation is not concerned; so as without danger to our souls we may be ignorant of what is the truth about them. When Christ knew that the hour (which he had once or twice before said was not come) was now come, that he must die, rise again, and in a short time ascend to his Father; he having loved his disciples, not with a mutable, but with an unchangeable love; he resolves upon the washing of their feet, as a demonstration of that love.
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John 13:1
1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.