15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. …
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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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