If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
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Gill's Exposition
If I then your Lord and Master,.... Christ argues from these titles and characters, which his disciples rightly gave him, and from what he had done to them, though he stood in such a superior relation…
Ye also ought to wash ... - Some have understood this literally as instituting a religious rite which we ought to observe; but this was evidently not the design; because: There is no evidence that…
Adam Clarke
Ye also ought to wash one another feet - That is, ye should be ready, after my example, to condescend to all the weakness of your brethren; to be willing to do the meanest offices for them, and to…
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…
Cambridge Bible
your Lord and Master, have washed Rather, the Lord andthe Master, washed. For the construction comp. Joh 15:20 and Joh 18:23.
ye also ought to wash one another's feet The custom of -the feet washing"…
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