Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII
For says the Lord: "He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that heareth me, heareth Him that sent me." And, "He that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth Him that sent me."[203]
Verse John 13:20. _HE THAT RECEIVED WHOMSOEVER I SEND_] See similar words, Matthew 10:40, c. Our Lord spoke this to comfort his disciples: he showed them that, although they should be rejected by many...
HE THAT RECEIVETH ... - This sentiment is found in the instructions which Jesus gave to his disciples in Matthew 10:40. Why he repeats it at this time cannot now be known. It is certain that it is not...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Washing of the Disciples' Feet. (John 13:1 .)_ 2. Instructions given; to Wash One Another's Feet. (John 13:12 .) 3. The Betrayal Foretold. (John 13:18 .) 4. His Own Departure an...
THE MEANING OF THE ACT: THE ONE EXCEPTION. The disciples recognise in Him their teacher and master. They should, therefore, follow His example by helping each other even in the lowliest services. The...
HE THAT RECEIVETH... RECEIVETH ME. They whose faith was made strong to believe in him would be commissioned as his heralds, sent from him, as he was sent from the Father. To receive them, the King's...
THE ROYALTY OF SERVICE (John 13:1-17)...
"It is not about you all that I am speaking. I know the kind of men whom I have chosen. It is all happening that the Scripture should be fulfilled: 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against...
_He that receiveth_, &c. The connexion of this saying, solemnly introduced with the double -verily," with what precedes is not easy to determine. The saying is one with which Christ had sent forth the...
Ὁ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The connexion of this saying, solemnly introduced with the double ‘verily,’ with what precedes is not easy to determine. The saying is one with which Christ had sent forth the Apostl...
Ver 12. So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said to them, Know you what I have done to you? 13. You call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for...
_JESUS WASHED THE FEET OF HIS DISCIPLES -- JOHN 13:1-20:_ The time was just before Passover. Jesus knew that the time of His death was at hand. He would soon leave this world and return to the Father....
ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать. Subst. part. описывает характерную черту как условие, ΠΈΜΨΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ (G3992) посылать, ΠΈΜΨΑΝΤΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ....
THE LESSON ON LOVING SERVICE _Text 13:12-20_ 12 So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and sat down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13 Ye call me, Te...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 13:12-20 The following is given as an Analysis of the second section of John 13:— The opening portion of John 13 makes known the provision which Divine love has...
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT RECEIVETH WHOMSOEVER I S...
The most menial service the Lord could perform for them was the washing of their feet. No wonder Peter protested! He has not fully learned the lesson that the Lord is abasing Himself even to death, be...
Jesus indicates the Traitor. 18. I do not call you all happy (blessed), for I know that among you is a traitor. But My choice even of the traitor is in accordance with the prophecy of Scripture. THE S...
Lest the knowledge that there is a traitor among them should weaken their confidence in one another, and in their divine call to the apostolate, Jesus hastens to assure them that they will receive the...
THE LAST SUPPER 1-17. The Supper and the Feet-washing. This supper is identified by almost all modern authorities with the Last Supper, which took place on Thursday night at Jerusalem (Matthew 26:20;...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 JESUS WASHES HIS *DISCIPLES’ FEET 13:1-11 V1 It was the day before the *Passover. Jesus knew that it was time for hi...
HE THAT RECEIVETH WHOMSOEVER I SEND RECEIVETH ME. — The thoughts presented to their minds in the preceding verses are — (1) their mission as His servants; (2) the betrayal by one of their own number;...
VII. _ JUDAS._ "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth My bread lifted up his heel against Me. From henceforth I tell you before it...
But lest this announcement should weaken their confidence in one another and in their own call to the Apostolate (“probabile est voluisse Christum offendiculo mederi”. Calvin) He hastens to add: ἀμὴν...
_Jesus washes the disciples' feet and explains His action_....
THE MASTER'S EXAMPLE John 13:12-20 Notwithstanding His great humility, Jesus expects to be regarded as Master and Lord; do we so call and treat Him? We must be as willing to obey Him as a soldier to...
For a time our Lord now devoted Himself to His own, and in this connection we have the account of His washing the disciples' feet. The whole action was Eastern, and was the action of a slave: By what...
FOOT-WASHING John 13:1-20. “And before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that the hour has come that He must depart out of this world to His Father, having loved His own in the world with Divi...
THIRD PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH IN THE DISCIPLES. 13:1- 17:26. THE third part of the Gospel describes the last moments which Jesus passed with His disciples; while making us acquainted with the s...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 12-20. 1. The explanation of the act performed by Jesus which is here given evidently points towards humility, and thus is easily connected with the dispu...
VER. 20. “ _Verily, verily, I say unto you: He that receives him whom I shall send, receives me, and he that receives me, receives him that sent me._ ” The relation between this saying and those which...
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled. He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. (19) Now I tell you before it come, that, w...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
20._Verily, verily, I tell you. _In these words either the Evangelist relates a discourse on a different subject, and in a broken and imperfect state, or, Christ intended to meet the offense which was...
Now, then, the Lord has taken His place as going to the Father. The time was come for it. He takes His place above, according to the counsels of God, and is no longer in connection with a world that h...
VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,.... You may assure yourselves of the truth of what I am going to say, and which I say for your comfort and encouragement: HE THAT RECEIVETH WHOMSOEVER I SEND, RECEIVET...
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. Ver. 20. _Verily, verily I say, &c._] Here our Saviour seems to...
_Verily, the servant is not greater than his lord_ And therefore ought not to think much either of doing or suffering the same things. _If ye know these things_ Therefore, knowing your duty in this pa...
WHOMSOEVER I SEND; as my minister....
Another allusion to Judas:...
VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT RECEIVETH WHOMSOEVER I SEND RECEIVETH ME; AND HE THAT RECEIVETH ME RECEIVETH HIM THAT SENT ME. All the words of kindly admonition, all the promises of future bl...
WASHING HIS DISCIPLES' FEET (vs.1-17) We are brought now to consider the last hours of the Lord Jesus before the cross. No longer does He minister to the world, but to His own disciples, from chapte...
18-30 Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death, without such trouble of spirit as he now discovered when he spake of Judas. The sins of Christians are the grief of Christ. We are not...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:24", the words of which place are but here repeated; either to commend to them brotherly love, and offices of love, which he had before recommended to them under the notion of...
John 13:20 Most G281 assuredly G281 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 receives G2983 (G5723) whomever G1437...
‘When Jesus had spoken thus he was troubled in spirit and testified saying, “I emphatically inform you that one of you will betray me”.' Jesus now confirms that he knew at this point that Judas had ma...
THERE IS ONE AMONG THEM WHO WILL BETRAY HIM (JOHN 13:18). Jesus now brings out the astonishing fact that one of His own disciples would ‘betray' Him. To us the meaning of this is clear for we know pre...
John 13:20. VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT RECEIVETH WHOMSOEVER I SEND RECEIVETH ME; AND HE THAT RECEIVETH ME RECEIVETH HIM THAT SENT ME. The difficulty of tracing the connection of these wor...
We enter here upon the fifth of those sections into which we have seen that the Gospel is divided; and the section extends to the close of chap. 17. The scene and the circumstances of the actors in it...
WHOMSOEVER I SEND (αν τινα πεμψω). More precisely, "If I send any one" (third-class condition, αν=εαν and τινα, indefinite pronoun accusative case, object of πεμψω, first aorist active subjunctive o...
CONTENTS: Last Passover. Jesus washes disciples' feet. Betrayal foretold, also Peter's denial. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God, Judas, disciples, Peter, Satan. CONCLUSION: What was consistent with the dignity...
John 13:1. _Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come._ What now transpired was on the Tuesday, while at supper in the house of Simon. Judas was now rebuked before all p...
_I speak not of you all_ A LAST APPEAL I. A SOLEMN ANNOUNCEMENT. 1. The reason of it. (1) To indicate Christ’s knowledge of the human heart, and to show that He had not been mistaken in Judas (Joh...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 13:20 THE ONE I SEND refers first to the disciples whom Jesus would specifically send out at John 20:22. More broadly it applies to all messengers of Christ, in e
JOHN 13:1 The Farewell Teaching and the Passion Narrative. The second half of John’s Gospel consists of Jesus’ farewell teaching (chs. John 13:1) and the events surrounding his death and resurrection...
1-38 CHAPTER 13 VER. 1. _Before the Feast of the Passover._ About the thirteenth day of the first month; the Passover, say the Greeks, having to be celebrated by the Law of the Jews on the fourteenth...
_Verily, verily I say to you, that He that receives him whom I have sent, receives Me; and he that receives Me receives Him that sent Me_. It is not clear how these words are connected with those whic...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 13:18. I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL.—Christ knew the heart of Judas; and He still gave him space for repentance (see John 6:71). I KNOW WHOM, ETC.—See John 15:16. But t...
EXPOSITION IV. THE FINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN WORD AND ACTION OF THE LOGOS INCARNATE, EXPRESSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO THE UTTERMOST AS
Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of the gospel according to John. We have come into a new section of the gospel of John, which carries us through chapter 17. And Chapter s 13 through 17 cover a pe...
1 Thessalonians 4:8; Colossians 2:6; Galatians 4:14; John 12:44;...
And I put my own honour upon you, my ambassadors. Matthew 10:40....
Lest his apostles should think that, for the treachery of one of them, they should all become odious and abominable to the world, our Saviour encourages and gives them an assurance, that there should...