For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
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Gill's Exposition
For I have given you an example,.... Christ is an example to his people, in many things; not in his miraculous performances and mediatorial work, but in the exercise of grace, of meekness, humility,…
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…
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
as I have done to you Not, - whatI have done to you," but - even as I have done:" this is the spirit in which to act self-sacrificing humility whether or no it be exhibited precisely in this way.…
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