John 13:7
Jesus said, “You don’t yet understand what I am doing, but one day you will.”
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
In Context
6He got to Peter, and Peter said, “Sir, it’s not right for you to wash my feet.”
Cross References
John 12:16Jesus’s followers didn’t understand what was happening. But, later on, after he went back to heaven, they remembered the words that God’s man wrote, and they understood that those words are about Jesus, and that it happened that day, while Jesus rode on that young donkey.
John 13:36Peter asked Jesus, “Sir, where are you going?” Jesus said to him, “You can’t follow me yet to the place where I am going. But you will follow me later.”
James 5:7Now I’m talking to you Christian people. You have to wait for our leader, Jesus, to come back, so don’t give up. Think about farmers. They plant their food crops, and then they just wait for the rain to come and make the plants grow, so that in the end, the farmers will get lots of food from those plants. Well, you have to wait, just like they do. Don’t give up. Our leader, Jesus, will come back soon.
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 →