Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 13:12
Set down] rather, 'reclined at table': see John 13:23.
14-17. Our Lord now draws from the incident the more obvious lessons of humility and willing service to others, as in St. Luke (Luke 22:24).
Set down] rather, 'reclined at table': see John 13:23.
14-17. Our Lord now draws from the incident the more obvious lessons of humility and willing service to others, as in St. Luke (Luke 22:24).
Verse John 13:12. _KNOW YE WHAT I HAVE DONE_] Our Lord had told Peter, in the presence of the rest, John 13:7, that he should _afterwards_ know what was the intent and meaning of this washing; and no...
KNOW YE WHAT ... - Do you know the meaning or design of what I have done unto you?...
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...
KNOW YE WHAT. HAVE DONE TO YOU? When he had completed his task, he laid aside the towel, resumed his robe, sat down to the table, and asked, "Do you understand what. have done to you?" They knew the...
Before the Festival of the Passover, Jesus, in the knowledge that his hour had come to leave this world and to go to the Father, although he had always loved his own people in the world, decided to sh...
THE ROYALTY OF SERVICE (John 13:1-17)...
SO AFTER. When therefore. WHAT. what [it is]....
_was set down_ The Greek verb occurs frequently in the Gospels (and nowhere else in N.T.) of reclining at meals. It always implies a _change_of position (see on John 13:25, and comp. John 6:10; John 2...
ΚΑῚ� for ἀναπεσών. 12. ἈΝΈΠΕΣΕΝ. The word is frequent in the Gospels (nowhere else in N.T.) of reclining at meals. It always implies a _change_ of position (John 13:25; John 6:10; John 21:20;...
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....
ΈΝΙΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΝΊΠΤΩ, _см._ John 13:5. ΈΛΑΒΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, получать, ΆΝΈΠΕΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΠΊΠΤΩ (G377) ложиться, возлегать за столом, ΠΕΠΟΊΗΚΑ _p...
DISCOURSE: 1678 CHRIST’S CONDESCENSION John 13:12. So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me...
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...
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? SO AFTER HE HAD WASHED THEIR FEET, AND HAD TAKEN HIS GARME...
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...
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...
AND WAS SET DOWN AGAIN. — This means in the reclining position customary at meals. Comp. Luke 11:37; Luke 22:14; and in this Gospel John 6:10; John 21:20. Here it im
VI. _ THE FOOT-WASHING._ "Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the wor...
Ὅτε … ὑμῖν : “when, then, He had washed their feet and taken His garments [_cf._ τίθησι τὰ ἱμάτια of John 13:4] and reclined again He said to them: Know ye what I have done to you?” Do you perceive th...
_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...
“ _When therefore he had washed their feet and taken his garments again, having resumed his seat at table_, _he said to them, Know you what I have done to you?_ 13. _You call me Master and Lord_, _and...
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...
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...
And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's s on, to betray him; (3) Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was c...
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...
12._When then he had washed their feet. _Christ at length explains what was his intention in _washing the feet _of his disciples; for what he had said about the spiritual washing was a sort of digress...
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...
SO AFTER HE HAD WASHED THEIR FEET,.... Not Peter's only, but the rest of the disciples also: some have thought, that he washed only the feet of some of them, and not all; but it seems, by this express...
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ver. 12. _Know ye what I have done to you?_] This was our Sa...
_So after he had washed their feet_, &c. After he had given them such a striking proof of his humility, condescension, and love, by performing to them the office of the meanest slave; _he said, Know y...
KNOW YE; do you understand the meaning?...
SO AFTER HE HAD WASHED THEIR FEET, AND HAD TAKEN HIS GARMENTS, AND WAS SET DOWN AGAIN, HE SAID UNTO TO THEM, KNOW YE WHAT I HAVE DONE TO YOU?...
The application of the washing of feet to the disciples:...
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...
1-17 Our Lord Jesus has a people in the world that are his own; he has purchased them, and paid dear for them, and he has set them apart for himself; they devote themselves to him as a peculiar peopl...
After that our Saviour had finished this ceremony, and washed his disciples feet, (some question whether all or no, but I see no reason to doubt it), he returned again to the supper, which probably no...
John 13:12 So G3767 when G3753 washed G3538 (G5656) their G846 feet G4228 G2532 taken G2983 ...
‘So when he had washed their feet and taken his outer clothes and again sat down, he said to them “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Master and Lord and you say well, for so I am. If I...
THE WASHING OF THE FEET: A LESSON IN HUMILITY (JOHN 13:1). Two major lessons come out from this passage. The first is that of the example that Jesus was giving of true humility in love and service. He...
John 13:12. WHEN THEREFORE HE HAD WASHED THEIR FEET, AND HAD TAKEN HIS GARMENTS, AND HAD SAT DOWN AGAIN, HE SAID UNTO THEM, PERCEIVE YE WHAT I HAVE DONE TO YOU? Again three particulars introduce the w...
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...
SAT DOWN AGAIN (ανεπεσεν παλιν). Second aorist active indicative of αναπιπτω, old compound verb to fall back, to lie down, to recline. Παλιν (again) can be taken either with ανεπεσεν, as here, or w...
John 13:1 The Washing of the Feet When we seek to wash a brother's feet we must be very careful about three things, which I give in the quaint way in which I have somewhere seen them expressed. I. ...
John 13:1. _Now before the feast of the passover,_ Or, just as it was about to begin, John 13:1. _When Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, havi...
John 13:1. _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...
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...
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? Jesus had used an ordinary thing, a custom, to teach them. He asks this question to point out the fact that they must look for some unusual meaning in what he has just done....
_Now before the feast of the Passover._ A THREE-FOLD MARVEL I. A MARVELLOUS LOVE: that of Christ for His own. Marvellous in respect of 1. Its time. (1) Before the feast of the Passover, when His t...
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...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 13:1. BEFORE THE FEAST, ETC.—Jesus came to Jerusalem steadfastly resolved to finish the work given Him to do (Luke 12:50, etc.). These words are not to be connect...
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...
Ezekiel 24:19; Ezekiel 24:24; John 13:7; Mark 4:13; Matthew 13:51...
Was set down [α ν α π ε σ ω ν]. Literally, having reclined. The guests reclined on couches, lying on the left side and leaning on the left hand. The table was in the hollow square or oblong formed on...
In these words our Saviour declares to his disciples his intention and design in washing of their feet: namely, to teach them, by his example, the duty of humility: that as he had performed that act o...