John 13:4

He rose from supper and laid aside His garments, and having taken a towel, He girded Himself.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

5Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to dry them with the towel with which He was girded.

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Cross References

Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them recline to eat, and he will come and serve them.

Luke 22:27For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.

Philippians 2:6who, existing in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal 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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