John 13:15

For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another?

16Verily, verily, I say to you, That no servant is greater than his lord; and no legate is greater than he who sent him.

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Cross References

Romans 15:5And may the God of patience and of consolation, grant to you, to think in harmony one with another, in Jesus Messiah;

1 Peter 2:21For unto this were ye called; because the Messiah also died for us, and left us this pattern, that ye should walk in his steps.

1 John 2:6He that saith, I am in him, is bound to walk according to his walkings.

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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