John 13:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

John 13:16 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 6:40
The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
John 15:20
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.
Matthew 10:24-25
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. …
John 3:5
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.
John 3:3
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.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16-17. The servant is not greater than his lord, &c.--an oft-repeated saying (Mt 10:24, &c.). If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them--a hint that even among real Christians the doing of such things would come lamentably short of the knowing.