John 13:15

For I have given you an example so that you should also do just as I did for you.

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For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

In Context

14If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you should also wash the feet of one another.

16Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him.

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Cross References

Romans 15:5Now may the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with each other according to Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 2:21For it is to this that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you. He left an example for you to follow in his steps. 1

1 John 2:6whoever says that he remains in God should himself also walk just as he walked.

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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