1Now 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
We love him, because he first loved us.
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)It has generally been taken for granted by commentators that Christ’s washing his disciples’ feet, and the discourse that followed it, were the same night in which he was betrayed, and at the same sitting wherein he ate the passover and instituted the Lord’s supper; but whether before the solemnity began, or after it was all over, or between the eating of the passover and the institution of the Lo…
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