John 13:15

'For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

Young's Literal Translation

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 did wash your feet — the Lord and the Teacher — ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

16verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

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Cross References

Romans 15:5And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

1 Peter 2:21for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

1 John 2:6He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

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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