John 13:4

he rose from supper and layde a syde his vpper garmentes and toke a towell and gyrd him selfe.

Tyndale 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

3Iesus knowinge that the father had geve all thinges into his hondes. And that he was come from God and went to God

5After that poured he water into a basyn and beganne to wash his disciples fete and to wype them with the towell wherwith he was gyrde.

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Cross References

Luke 12:37Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.

Luke 22:27For whether is greater he that sitteth at meate: or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? And I am amonge you as he that ministreth.

Philippians 2:6Which beynge in the shape of god and thought it not robbery to be equall 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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