John 13:15

for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14If then I have washed your feet, I the ‘Master’ and the ‘Teacher’, you also ought to wash one another’s feet,

16In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

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Cross References

Romans 15:5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be in full sympathy with one another, in accordance with the example of Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 2:21For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

1 John 2:6By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.

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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