John 13:14

14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

John 13:14 in Other Translations

14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet.

14 So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet.

14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

14 So if I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you must wash each other's feet.

14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

14 I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet. So you also should wash one another's feet.

John 13:14 Meaning and Commentary

John 13:14

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.

John 13:14 In-Context

12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.

13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am.

14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Peter 5:5