John 13:14
If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
In Context
13Ye call me, Our Rabbi, and Our Lord; and ye speak well; for I am so.
15For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you.
Cross References
Mark 10:43But it shall not be so among you: but he that would be great among you, must be a servitor to you.
Acts 20:35And I have showed you all things; that thus it is a duty to labor, and to care for the infirm, and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus; for he hath said, That he is more blessed who giveth, than he who receiveth.
Romans 12:16What estimation ye make of yourselves, make also of your brethren. And indulge not high thoughts; but unite yourselves with the lowly minded. And be not wise in your own estimation.
1 Corinthians 8:13Wherefore, if food is a stumbling-block to my brother, I will for ever eat no flesh, lest I should be a stumbling-block to my brother.
2 Corinthians 8:9For ye know the goodness of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who when he was rich, for your sakes became poor, that by his poverty ye might be made rich.
Galatians 5:13And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.
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 →