约翰福音 13:14

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我是主，是老師，尚且洗你們的腳，你們也應當彼此洗腳。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 是 你 们 的 主 ， 你 们 的 夫 子 ， 尚 且 洗 你 们 的 脚 ， 你 们 也 当 彼 此 洗 脚 。

Contextual Overview

¹ It was almost time for the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that it was time for him to leave this world and go back to the Father. He had always loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them all the way to the end. ² Jesus and his followers were at the evening meal. The devil had already persuaded Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to turn against Jesus. ³ Jesus knew that the Father had given him power over everything and that he had come from God and was going back to God. ⁴ So during the meal Jesus stood up and took off his outer clothing. Taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist. ⁵ Then he poured water into a bowl and began to wash the followers' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ⁶ Jesus came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later." ⁸ Peter said, "No, you will never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "If I don't wash your feet, you are not one of my people." ⁹ Simon Peter answered, "Lord, then wash not only my feet, but wash my hands and my head, too!" ¹⁰ Jesus said, "After a person has had a bath, his whole body is clean. He needs only to wash his feet. And you men are clean, but not all of you."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I then: Matthew 20:26-28, Mark 10:43-45, Luke 22:26, Luke 22:27, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Philippians 2:5-8, Hebrews 5:8, Hebrews 5:9, Hebrews 12:2

ye also: Acts 20:35, Romans 12:10, Romans 12:16, Romans 15:1-3, 1 Corinthians 8:13, 1 Corinthians 9:19-22, 2 Corinthians 10:1, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:2, Philippians 2:2-5, 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 5:5

Reciprocal: Judges 19:21 - they washed 2 Samuel 11:11 - my lord 2 Kings 3:11 - poured water Psalms 85:13 - shall set Psalms 108:9 - Moab Matthew 23:8 - one Matthew 23:11 - General Mark 10:45 - came Mark 14:45 - Master Romans 1:1 - a servant 2 Corinthians 4:5 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Deuteronomy 3:27
Climb to the top of Mount Pisgah and look west, north, south, and east. You can look at the land, but you will not cross the Jordan River.

Isaiah 49:18
Look up and look around you. All your children are gathering to return to you." The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels that a bride wears proudly.

Isaiah 60:4
"Look around you. People are gathering and coming to you. Your sons are coming from far away, and your daughters are coming with them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 to them, to their duty one towards another; that since, says he, I

have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet: by which he does not mean barely, that they should perform this single action; but as this was an instance of humility and condescension, and doing a good office to strangers and travellers, and was afterwards an expression of love to the saints, see 1 Timothy 5:10, so he would teach them hereby, to behave in a spirit of humility and condescension to one another, to do every kind and good office, and by love to serve one another in all things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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:

1. There is no evidence that Jesus intended it as a religious observance, like the Lord’s Supper or the ordinance of baptism.
2. It was not observed by the apostles or the primitive Christians as a religious rite.
3. It was a rite of hospitality among the Jews, a common, well-known thing, and performed by servants.
4. It is the manifest design of Jesus here to inculcate a lesson of humility; to teach them by his example that they ought to condescend to the most humble offices for the benefit of others. They ought not to be proud, and vain, and unwilling to occupy a low place, but to regard themselves as the servants of each other, and as willing to befriend each other in every way. And especially as they were to be founders of the church, and to be greatly honored, he took this occasion of warning them against the dangers of ambition, and of teaching them, by an example that they could not forget, the duty of humility.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 13:14. 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 prefer the least of them in honour to yourselves.