The Meaning of the Example

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So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

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You call me, ‘Rabbi’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

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If I then, the Lord and the Rabbi, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

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For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

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Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

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If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

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From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

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Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

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