John 13:4

He gets up from the meal and lays aside His garments, and taking a towel He tied it around Himself.

Family 35 New Testament

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 everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

5Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel with which He was wrapped.

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Cross References

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

Luke 22:27Who is greater, the one reclining or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining? Yet I am among you as the one who serves.

Philippians 2:6who, existing in God's form, did not consider equality with God a thing 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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