John 13:17

If ye know these things,.... The duties they owed to him, and one another; those kind offices of love and respect to each other; the humility, condescension, and brotherly love, which ought to be in…

The servant is not ... - This was universally true, and this they were to remember always, that they were to manifest the same spirit that he did, and that they were to expect the same treatment from…

If ye know these things, happy, etc. - True happiness consists in the knowledge of God, and in obedience to him. A man is not happy because he knows much; but because he receives much of the Divine…

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…

happy are ye if ye do them Better, blessed are ye, &c. It is the same Greek word as is used in Joh 20:29 and in the Beatitudes both in S. Matthew and in S. Luke. Comp. Luk 11:28; Luk 12:43; Mat 7:21;…