16Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. …
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of 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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