John 13:4

So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

5After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

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Cross References

Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.

Luke 22:27For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

Philippians 2:6Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

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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