12So 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?
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Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
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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