John 13:4

rises from supper and lays aside his garments, and having taken a linen towel he girded himself:

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

In Context

3[Jesus,] knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came out from God and was going to God,

5then he pours water into the washhand basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the linen towel with which he was girded.

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Cross References

Luke 12:37Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord [on] coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

Luke 22:27For which [is] greater, he that is at table or he that serves? [Is] not he that is at table? But *I* am in the midst of you as the one that serves.

Philippians 2:6who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

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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