John 13:15

For I have given you an example, that you also may do as I have done for you.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

In Context

14If, then, I, your Lord and your Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

16Verily, verily I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor is he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

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Cross References

Romans 15:5Now, may the God of patience and comfort make you of the same mind one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

1 Peter 2:21To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.

1 John 2:6He that says, he abides in him, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Matthew Henry on John 13:2-18

Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience. 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. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from… Read the whole commentary →

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